easy_install on the mac has some weird hardcoding issue where it uses a specific version of setuptools. You can read a really good explanation by Andreas Jacobsen here.

The fix is to use python to call easy_install instead of using the Apple provided one.

sudo python -m easy_install pymongo

I’ve been trying to get into Python in my spare time, since it’s got such a huge volume of modules and looks like it should be easy to be ripping it up in no time. But of course, I have my complaints.

Fortunately I don’t need to write a long blog post, this guy [...]

There’s a weird behavior in Python when dealing with Mutable types such as dictionaries, that when you modify a variable defined as a class attribute, you’re actually modifying a shared dictionary amongst all the classes. This seemed weird to me. You can read the lovely discussion about it, if you want. Or, just follow [...]