How to clean up my Python Installation for a fresh start

Question

I\'m developing on Snow Leopard and going through the various \"how tos\" to get the MySQLdb package installed and working (uphill battle). Things are a mess and I\'d like to r

Answer 1

My experience doing development on MacOSX is that the directories for libraries and installation tools are just different enough to cause a lot of problems that you end up having to fix by hand. Eventually, your computer becomes a sketchy wasteland of files and folders duplicated all over the place in an effort to solve these problems. A lot of hand-tuned configuration files, too. The thought of getting my environment set up again from scratch gives me the chills.

Then, when it's time to deploy, you've got to do it over again in reverse (unless you're deploying to an XServe, which is unlikely).

Learn from my mistake: set up a Linux VM and do your development there. At least, run your development "server" there, even if you edit the code files on your Mac.