"I need a clean box for testing releases on"

A clean *account* is usually sufficient. You can even use your existing account by cleaning up your environment variables so PYTHONPATH doesn't see your installed stuff. A separate Python installation helps.

Hey, isn't there that Moveable Python thingy available that you could use?
David Goodger | Homepage | 06/03/27 - 4:26 pm | #

Testing with Movable Python is a very good idea. It should have occured to me.

(Except it comes with Wax, pythonutils and wxPython by default - too many batteries included. Easy enough to strip it down though.)

LOL

Thanks

Fuzzyman
Fuzzyman | Homepage | 06/03/27 - 4:49 pm | #

I feel your pain; I did this with twill and BeautifulSoup a few months ago. Sigh.
Titus Brown | Homepage | 06/03/27 - 5:27 pm | #

I find ant really helpfull for creating distributions.
Justin | 06/03/28 - 8:26 pm | #

I use virtual-python.py to get a completely clean environment. Well, actually the script virtual-python.py was based on has a couple more options for this (http://svn.colorstudy.com/home/ianb/ non_root_python.py)

I haven't automated that testing, so I don't actually test stuff that way as often as I should. But it's a step in the right direction, I think.
Ian Bicking | Homepage | 06/03/30 - 5:12 pm | #