IR_Black Theme in IDLE Shell

I prefer to use the IDLE Shell for interactive Python programming.  I do not, however, particularly like the default themes.  I created a theme based on the somewhat popular IR_Black theme.  Here is how I set up IDLE:

• In ~/.idlerc/config-main.cfg I added the following:

[Theme]

default = 0

name = IR_Black

• In ~/.idlerc I created a file named config-highlight.cfg.  In that file I added the following:
  

[IR_Black]

break-foreground = #E0E2E4

builtin-foreground = #95cbf9

comment-foreground = #66747B

console-foreground = #E0E2E4

cursor-foreground = #E0E2E4

definition-foreground = #95cbf9

error-foreground = #fc6863

hilite-foreground = #E0E2E4

hit-foreground = #E0E2E4

keyword-foreground = #93C763

normal-foreground = #E0E2E4

stderr-foreground = #fc6863

stdout-foreground = #95cbf9

string-foreground = #fda368

break-background = #242424

builtin-background = #242424

comment-background = #242424

console-background = #242424

definition-background = #242424

error-background = #242424

hilite-background = #36397e

hit-background = #7f397b

keyword-background = #242424

normal-background = #242424

stderr-background = #242424

stdout-background = #242424

string-background = #242424

Enjoy!

Accessing HBase using Thrift/Python

Install Thrift (and it's Dependencies)

To access HBase via Python you must first download, compile, and install Apache Thrift.  As of the time of this writing, the Apache Thrift website does not offer pre-compiled binaries for OS X.  The process for downloading, compiling and installing Thrift is documented on the Thrift web site.  However, I have recorded my steps below incase someone is interested in following them.

Download and install libevent

1. Download libevent (here is the link for 2.0.12, which is the version I used)
2. Untar libevent
3. Compile libevent by executing the following three commands

./configure --prefix=/usr/local 

make

sudo make install

Download and install Boost

1. Download Boost (here is the link for 1.54, which is the version I used)
2. Untar Boost
3. Compile Boost by executing the following two commands

./bootstrap.sh
sudo ./b2 threading=multi address-model=64 variant=release stage install

Note:  I received numerous warnings and errors but ignored them.

Download and install Thrift

1. Download Thrift (here is the link for 0.9.1, which is the version I used)
2. Untar Thrift
3. Compile Thrift by exeucting the following command

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ --with-boost=/usr/local --with-libevent=/usr/local