Installing python 26 + sqlalchemy on centos

Turns out there is a very very very easy . Just use the repo for fedora on the redhat site.

rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

yum install python26 python26-devel python26-distribute python26-tools

easy_install-2.6 SQLAlchemy

test it via

python2.6

>>>import sqlalchemy

>>>sqlalchemy.__version__

Random password in CLI

Just a small script so that we can generate passwords from the command line

NUMPASS=10

if [[ "$1" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] ; then

NUMPASS=$1

fi

echo "Spicy salt $(date)" | md5sum | sed "s/\(.\{$NUMPASS\}\).*/\1/"