Mailman 3 August 2001 - Pythonmac-SIG

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] ObjC stuff
by Jack Jansen March 20, 2003

March 20, 2003

Recently, Steve Spicklemire <steve(a)spvi.com> said: > So it's in CVS somewhere? I'll do a check-out and see if I can find it. I don't know, Steven Majewski may know (I think he is the one who looked at it). If it isn't in the repository it probably should be, preferrably in the Modules directory (because it is useful for non-Mac users) but if there's objections against that we'll put it in the Mac/Modules dir. > I just ordered CW-6 today so I might be able to pitch in a bit. While very useful for other things (like MacPython development) you don't need it for OSX unix-Python development: this is all make and gcc-based (and you have those on your OSX developer disc). -- 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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Speed issues with Applet/Applications?
by Sean Hummel April 12, 2002

April 12, 2002

Hi, I wrote a script which allows me to decompress from a .ZIP file, and appropriately sizing names of files that are longer than 31 characters. However the problem I am encountering, is that when I run the script in the Python IDE, it runs at full speed. When I run the script as a standalone application or applet, then it runs VERY SLOW! I am using Python 2.1, and I am using running this script on a PowerG4. So I am wondering if someone else has had this problem when using the application or applet, and/or if there is a good solution to this problem.

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Rated X for (spot)
by ryanwilcox＠mac.com Dec. 6, 2001

Dec. 6, 2001

I'm trying to make a set of scripts that will go back and forth between Classical Mac OS and OS X, using the Carbon Python. Now I have some questions: #1: Is there a way to tell what version of 'mac' I'm on? os.name() doesn't help much... ;) #2: Assuming I'm on X, is there a way to execute command-line programs? I found posix.execve(), but does this work on OS X?

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Building mxDateTime for Python 2.0
by Vincent Marchetti Sept. 24, 2001

Sept. 24, 2001

I am trying to re-compile the mxDateTime shared library to let me use DateTime in Python 2.0 -- the shared library provided throws exception on import about using the wrong version. I have never compiled any type of shared library before, so girding my loins and firing up CW 5 I set up a shared library project and: 1. included the mxDateTime.c code 2. included stub libraries PythonCore and MSL ShLibRuntime.Lib Result: -- Link failure, could not find function 'floor' I knew this is a standard C function, so I threw the stub MathLib into the pot and cooked. Got a bunch of warnings about duplicate definitions of math functions (in PythonCore and MathLib). Decided to ignore warnings. Successfully made the shared library, successfully imported DateTime into Python 2.0 (actually 2.0b1). However, the test script for mxDateTime failed an assertion. Basically, a function DateTimeFromTicks, which uses the floor function, fails to give predicted results. My question: Am I including the correct library in my project to get the "right" version of floor? Thanks, Vince Marchetti

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Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Really final 2.1.1 installer available
by Jack Jansen Sept. 5, 2001

Sept. 5, 2001

Recently, Russell E Owen <owen(a)astro.washington.edu> said: > Might you be able to post the missing config file, for those of us > who already installed 2.1.1? Here it is. Put into :Python:Tools:idle:config-mac.txt [EditorWindow] font-name= monaco font-size= 9 -- 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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Pythonica (symbolic algebra)
by Christopher Smith Sept. 1, 2001

Sept. 1, 2001

joe(a)strout.net writes: >At 9:29 AM -0500 8/30/01, Christopher Smith wrote: > >>I've been looking for something like Pythonica...glad I found it! >>Thanks for the work that you've done on this. A few comments >>about it and some bugs have been made on the tutor list: >> >>http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2001-August/subject.html >> >>Look for the subject line containing "algebraic". > >OK. Please feel free to add to this discussion that I don't use >Python much any more, and am looking for someone to take over >maintenance of Pythonica (including fixing those known bugs). It looks like you had made some significant progress on Python and provided some useful tools (I am using the patched editor, for example). Thank you. Do you have a list of errors that have been reported for Pythonica? I passed along your comments to the tutor and mac lists. /c

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Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Tkinter for 2.1 Carbon?
by Jack Jansen Aug. 31, 2001

Aug. 31, 2001

Recently, Russell E Owen <owen(a)astro.washington.edu> said: > At the moment Tkinter does not work at all with Carbon (and has some issues w > ith Classic). > > If you are willing to do some programming, you may be able to help the effort > to get it "Carbonized". I don't know what's involved nor who might already b > e working on it. On the other side of the fence (on the mactcl mailing list) there's some reports that people are working on getting Tk to work on OSX with the native graphics there. (There is an OSX Tk, but it's pretty useless for the general public as it is just standard Unix Tk so it requires an X-Windows server). And for OS9 there's an option I pointed out earlier, but don't have the time to pursue: I think it might be possible to link a _Tkinter.carbon.slb that is linked against PythonCoreCarbon, InterfaceLib and the InterfaceLib Tk libraries. So if someone can put some time into investigating the latter it would give us back Tkinter in Carbon-MacPython on OS9, while the Tk folks wil at some point give us Tkinter for OSX. -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen(a)oratrix.com | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ www.cwi.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm

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Tkinter for 2.1 Carbon?
by Christopher Smith Aug. 31, 2001

Aug. 31, 2001

I have a non-carbon installation that runs the recon.py program just fine and that program imports Tkinter. I installed python 2.1 (carbon version) under OS 9.1 and recon.py *does not* run here. Basically, I want to know how to get the Tkinter module available on the new system. FWIW, here's what I've tried; -checked "Documentation - start here.html" and the "using python on mac" link -I looked for a Tkinter module but did not find one; I did find two folders named Tkinter and tkinter; the Tkinter has a setup.py file which presents a dialog box with several options, none of which I know what to do with. I also found a plugin _tkinter.carbon.slb -I checked the configuration paths and see a path to Lib:lib-tk but there is no lib-tk in the mac distribution yet. Can anyone tell me how to get up and running with Tkinter? /c

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OS migration...
by Israel Evans Aug. 31, 2001

Aug. 31, 2001

I'm in the process of switching over to the mac and I was wondering what are the things I most need to be aware of when programming Python for the Mac(OS 9 or OS X). Are many of you people who tend to use more than one platform to develop on? Specifically Mac/Win/Linux? Now that Mac OS X is almost a *nix variant, Windows XP is *nix-ish, and Linux is the People's *nix, what are the repercussions to writing for these "more similar than before" platforms.

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pythonslave
by Christopher Smith Aug. 30, 2001

Aug. 30, 2001

I don't know if there is a newer version of the Pythonslave file than "version 0.2.3, 18 september 1996" but this version has "from Types import *" which does not find the lowercase "type" module. Perhaps this could be changed so it's correct in the next distribution (unless I am missing something here). /c

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