Mailman 3 October 2000 - Pythonmac-SIG

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Embedding Python w/o SIOUX popping up
by Jack Jansen April 18, 2001

April 18, 2001

> I am embedding Python in a Code Resource that loads as an extension to the > program Igor. My extension loads the PythonCore Shared Library. When I > call my command from the Igor command window and the code in my extension > calls PyMac_Initialize() a SIOX window pops up and another apple menu is > added at the top of the screen. There is porbably some way to use the > funcitonality of PythonCode without loading the Window/menubar, and if > there is, I would love any advice anyone may have on this > situation. Thanks. Your application needs python preferences resources (a "Popt" and a "GU<sigma> I" resource). The easiest way to get these is dropping your application on EditPythonPrefs. An alternative (often handier because you don't have to do it after every build) is to create a resource file that includes the Popt and GUSI resource and include this in your build. -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen(a)oratrix.com | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ www.oratrix.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm

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Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Pythonmac-SIG digest, Vol 1 #455 - 5 msgs
by Anthony Ingraldi March 6, 2001

March 6, 2001

> B) is the TK stuff needed to use Gnuplot, or is just what you used to > create your "GUI-driven" solution. > You can drive Mac Gnuplot from python via the "standard" Gnuplot.py module. The module is available at http://monsoon.harvard.edu/~mhagger/Gnuplot/Gnuplot.html. The latest version includes support for the Mac. Also, the Mac gnuplot distribution contains a simple console written in python. You can obtain the Mac port of gnuplot at http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~schooley/gnuplot.html. It looks like it hasn't been updated in over 2 years. -- Tony Ingraldi A.M.INGRALDI(a)LaRC.NASA.GOV Phone : (757) 864-3039 Fax : (757) 864-7892

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Syntax higlighting
by Hicks Nov. 2, 2000

Nov. 2, 2000

I am new to MacPython...does the IDE have syntax highlighting? If it does how do I turn mine on? Bob

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Re: API_MAC_CARBON
by Jack Jansen Oct. 31, 2000

Oct. 31, 2000

> > > Jack: > I noticed some of the "#if !TARGET_API_MAC_CARBON" in the sources. > What exactly is the state of Carbonization of MacPython ? I have a Carbonized MacPython sort-of working. But: there is no GUSI for carbon yet, so it doesn't have sockets/select/threads, so that makes it rather useless. As soon as GUSI is Carbon-compatible we should have a working Carbon-Python. > Is you build environment out-of-the-box Codewarrior ? > ( and what version? 5? ) or are you using one of the > later Universal Interfaces on top of CW's headers. The 2.0 distribution is build with standard CW Pro 5.3. If you want to do Carbon development you'll need CW Pro 6. And I've only done carbon work with the Pro 6 beta release (my full copy still hasn't arrived). > Have you looked at all at the question of supporting the new > carbon event model ? > I'm guessing that to really work, SIOUX, GUSI and Tk would > also need to support the new event model. I don't think there's > been much new work done on Tk for Mac, so I doubt that there's > any help there. What about GUSI ? Things are slow with GUSI at the moment. And while a few people (including myself) have volunteered to help out it is rather difficult due to the GUSI source code structure (Matthias uses some sort of tangle/weave structure with homegrown tools). -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen(a)oratrix.com | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ www.oratrix.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm

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API_MAC_CARBON
by Steven D. Majewski Oct. 31, 2000

Oct. 31, 2000

Jack: I noticed some of the "#if !TARGET_API_MAC_CARBON" in the sources. What exactly is the state of Carbonization of MacPython ? Is you build environment out-of-the-box Codewarrior ? ( and what version? 5? ) or are you using one of the later Universal Interfaces on top of CW's headers. Have you looked at all at the question of supporting the new carbon event model ? I'm guessing that to really work, SIOUX, GUSI and Tk would also need to support the new event model. I don't think there's been much new work done on Tk for Mac, so I doubt that there's any help there. What about GUSI ? ---| Steven D. Majewski (804-982-0831) <sdm7g(a)Virginia.EDU> |--- ---| Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics |--- ---| University of Virginia Health Sciences Center |--- ---| P.O. Box 10011 Charlottesville, VA 22906-0011 |--- "All operating systems want to be unix, All programming languages want to be lisp."

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Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Help with using aete and Adobe Illustrator 9
by Jack Jansen Oct. 30, 2000

Oct. 30, 2000

> [...] Basically, I am > able to tell Illustrator to open > a file but none of the rest of the commands are being handled. > >>> import macostools; > >>> import Illustrator9 > >>> import macfs > >>> sfss=macfs.FSSpec("HD:Desktop Folder:illustrator-1") > >>> dfss=macfs.FSSpec("HD:Desktop Folder:ill-1.pdf") > >>> iob=Illustrator9.Illustrator9(signature='ART5', start=1) > >>> tgt=iob.open(sfss) > >>> iob.save(sfss, _in=dfss, as='pdf') My guess is that you should pass tgt as the direct object to the save call. -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen(a)oratrix.com | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ www.oratrix.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm

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Small issue
by François Granger Oct. 29, 2000

Oct. 29, 2000

If I change the preference for file creator in "EditPythonPrefs" to "Pepr" code for the Pepper editor, the files created have the creator of BBedit. This is not a big issue, just annoying. -- "Computers are like horses; they can sense fear and will act based on that. Or, look at it like this. If you have a premonition of danger, maybe you're right." - Adam Engst

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Help with using aete and Adobe Illustrator 9
by Suresh L Konda Oct. 29, 2000

Oct. 29, 2000

Hi, I followed the directions in the Mac/Demo directory and built a python package for Illustrator's scripting plugin using gensuitemodule.py. Again following the directions, I tried to get Illustrator to respond to apple events sent from python and failed. Basically, I am able to tell Illustrator to open a file but none of the rest of the commands are being handled. Here is an (edited) interpreter session (the lines starting with "arguments" are print statement outputs I added): >>> import macostools; >>> import Illustrator9 >>> import macfs >>> sfss=macfs.FSSpec("HD:Desktop Folder:illustrator-1") >>> dfss=macfs.FSSpec("HD:Desktop Folder:ill-1.pdf") >>> iob=Illustrator9.Illustrator9(signature='ART5', start=1) >>> tgt=iob.open(sfss) >>> iob.save(sfss, _in=dfss, as='pdf') arguments pre: {'as': 'pdf', '_in': FSSpec((-1, 16, 'ill-1.pdf'))} arguments post: {'fltp': 'pdf', 'kfil': FSSpec((-1, 16, 'ill-1.pdf')), '----': FSSpec((-1, 16, 'illustrator-1'))} arguments post 2: {'fltp': 'e193', 'kfil': FSSpec((-1, 16, 'ill-1.pdf')), '----': FSSpec((-1, 16, 'illustrator-1'))} Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "HD:Applications:Python 2.0c1:Mac:Lib:lib-scriptpackages:Illustrator9:Core_Suite.py", line 220, in save aetools.Error: (-1708, 'the AppleEvent was not handled by any handler', None) >>> iob.close(sfss, saving='no') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "HD:Applications:Python 2.0c1:Mac:Lib:lib-scriptpackages:Illustrator9:Core_Suite.py", line 188, in close aetools.Error: (-1708, 'the AppleEvent was not handled by any handler', None) Any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance. Suresh

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(no subject)
by Francois Granger Oct. 27, 2000

Oct. 27, 2000

I am participating in the translation of Python docs to french. I works on Mac (at home). Since this doc is to be delivered in iso-8859-1, grabbing from other scripts, I came with a simple script wich translate my Mac charset to 8859. def macTo88591(s): t="" for c in s: if entitydefs.has_key(c): t=t + entitydefs[c] else: t=t+c return t The entitydefs is a hacked version of """HTML character entity references.""" with Mac char replacing html entities as keys. On the professional side, I receive html files translated to french. They are coded in html entity. I need to translate them to UTF-8. I currently use Tidy to do this, but I need to do some manual modifications after it. I looked throught the new features of Python 2 but I did not found an easy way to do something similar to what I did with this 8859 modification. Any idea or bigginning of solution ? -- "Computers are like horses; they can sense fear and will act based on that. Or, look at it like this. If you have a premonition of danger, maybe you're right." - Adam Engst

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2.0 Installer
by Jack Jansen Oct. 27, 2000

Oct. 27, 2000

Folks, the one problem with the installer is the incredibly long time it takes to finish up. On my iMac it's acceptable (about a minute) some people here have reported a half-an-hour wait. Does anyone else have experience with Installer Vise? Any idea what could be happening here? Anything I can do about it? As another measurement point: I do know that the CodeWarrior installer, which also installs tens of thousands of files, also takes forever to finish. So maybe it can't be helped... -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen(a)oratrix.com | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ www.oratrix.nl/~jack | ++++ see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/ ++++

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