Python Cheat Sheet

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Setuptools

Messages like this:

/home/bmc/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/zope.interface-3.4.1-py2.5-linux-i686.egg/zope/__init__.py:3:
UserWarning: Module _mysql was already imported from
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/_mysql.so, but
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5 is being added to sys.path

can happen when packages use setuptools. To suppress them, create a sitecustomize.py file in your site-packages directory, containing:

import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings('ignore',
                        message=r'Module .*? is being added to sys\.path',
                        append=True)