🌐 Mailman 3 April 1997 - Pythonmac-SIG - python.org

plotting with Igor
by Rob Managan April 28, 1997

April 28, 1997

In response to the plotting module debates and some of my own needs and desires I am planning to try and write a module to plot data from python with Igor. Kevin R. Boyce has provided a C library to interact with Igor via its PPC hook. So unless someone else has done it already I will work on writing a module that will wrap the library and then work on python classes to interact with it. Has anyone worked with Boyce's Bluchert library? *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-**-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Rob Managan mailto://managan@llnl.gov LLNL ph: 510-423-0903 P.O. Box 808, L-183 FAX: 510-423-5804 Livermore, CA 94551-0808 _______________ PYTHONMAC-SIG - SIG on Python for the Apple Macintosh send messages to: pythonmac-sig(a)python.org administrivia to: pythonmac-sig-request(a)python.org _______________

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MkPluginAliases crash
by Ned Schumann April 26, 1997

April 26, 1997

I've unpacked Python 1.4 CFM68K on my 20Mb PowerBook running 7.6. With no Python related files in the Extension and Preferences folders the system crashes with a n "Error type 10" when I invoke MkPluginAliases. Any clues to what I should do are welcome. I've installed Python on our Unix boxes and am addicted. Now I need to carry it home on my Mac. Regards, Ned Townsend Communications, Inc _______________ PYTHONMAC-SIG - SIG on Python for the Apple Macintosh send messages to: pythonmac-sig(a)python.org administrivia to: pythonmac-sig-request(a)python.org _______________

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Re: [PYTHONMAC-SIG] CW 11
by Jack Jansen April 19, 1997

April 19, 1997

Recently, "Joseph J. Strout" <jstrout(a)ucsd.edu> said: > > If somebody does make a new compilation of Python 1.4, please consider > rolling in the latest betas of Tk 8.0. I hear that it's MUCH improved over > the current version, mainly because it uses native GUI elements, and I'd > rather not wait until Python 1.5 to give it a try. Has anyone looked at how much changes are needed for using Tk 8.0? I didn't look at it at all yet... > (BTW, is there any chance things like Tk could be dynamically loaded > libraries, so you can just unplug one version and plug in another without > recompiling Python? I really don't know what I'm talking about here, so if > this is complete nonsense, just say so...) I think you can forget that. The include files and such will have changed too, so the least you'll have to do is recompile _tkinter. It is of course an option to distribute a new _tkinter plugin module which uses Tk 8.0 to replace the current _tkinter, if someone is willing to create such a distribution. As said previously I can't volunteer right now. -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen(a)cwi.nl | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ http://www.cwi.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm _______________ PYTHONMAC-SIG - SIG on Python for the Apple Macintosh send messages to: pythonmac-sig(a)python.org administrivia to: pythonmac-sig-request(a)python.org _______________

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Re: [PYTHONMAC-SIG] regarding sys.path (was: Anyone using $(APPLICATION) in sys.path preferences?)
by Jack Jansen April 18, 1997

April 18, 1997

Recently, "jeffrey P. Shell" <jeff(a)cynapses.com> said: > [on losing parts of sys.path set through EditPythonPrefs] > > i can append stuff to sys.path from a script or from the interpreter, > but after a certain point i can't add any more inside EditPythonPrefs Found it! It turns out that SetDialogItemText() cannot handle more than 255 chars, which is to be expected but which I forgot. The workaround, for now: if you need more than 255 chars in your sys.path initializer use ResEdit to edit "Python 1.4 Preferences" by hand, and modify the STR# resource. For the future I will implement a different EditPythonPrefs. Some time ago Just sent me a first stab at a much nicer EditPythonPrefs, and I also want to make the functionality available to python programs anyway so this is probably the moment to do the rewrite. -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen(a)cwi.nl | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ http://www.cwi.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm ================= PYTHONMAC-SIG - SIG on Python for the Apple Macintosh send messages to: pythonmac-sig(a)python.org administrivia to: pythonmac-sig-request(a)python.org =================

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Re: [PYTHONMAC-SIG] CW 11
by Jack Jansen April 18, 1997

April 18, 1997

> I was wondering what the status of MacPython and CW11 is. I recently tried > to add a new module and found that the library changes affect a lot of > things. Namely settings in the projects and what libraries are included. For the time being it is best to load the "obsolete ANSI libraries" off the CW11 CD and use those. This should work without a problem. I'm busy porting everything to the new MSL libraries, and it all seems to work with only some minor problems, but my sourcetree already has a lot of Guido's mods for 1.5, so I can't really make a distribution at this point. If you really want to try the MSL libraries: make sure you get the updated version from the MW website, and ask me for the modified GUSI to work with them. -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen(a)cwi.nl | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ http://www.cwi.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm _______________ PYTHONMAC-SIG - SIG on Python for the Apple Macintosh send messages to: pythonmac-sig(a)python.org administrivia to: pythonmac-sig-request(a)python.org _______________

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Re: [PYTHON GUI-SIG] native Python GUI module(s)?
by Steven D. Majewski April 17, 1997

April 17, 1997

On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Steven D. Majewski wrote: > The Tk8.0 widgets all look pretty good and Native on a Mac now. > > Some Tk *applications* ( like some of the demo code that comes with > wish ) look pretty awful on a Mac, because they use some Tk idioms > that don't translate well to a Mac -- they don't have native > implementations and they typically don't look as good and perform > poorly. And I should add: some of it even works properly with Kaleidoscope! ( And some of it didn't look so good! Same type of problem -- since Kaleidoscope works by patching some of the standard window defs and dialogs, etc. the more standard the app, the better the result. But when it mostly works, the effect of "falling off the native look and feel horizon" is even more jarring! ) [ For those who don't know what I'm talking about, Kaleidoscope is a shareware control panel that can customize the Mac look & feel. It can change the window & finder color schemes, the look of checkboxes and other controls, the default system font for menus, etc. Sort of a limited version of the Appearance Manager that's been promised in a future MacOS release. That is another aspect of Native Look & Feel: on that Mac, that has often translated to TWO separate principles: (1): That all application should have a consistent L&F. (2): That what that L&F actually *IS*, should be end-user programmable. but #2 relies heavily on the way that #1 is implemented. ] ---| 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 |--- By doing just a little every day, you can gradually let the task completely overwhelm you. _______________ PYTHONMAC-SIG - SIG on Python for the Apple Macintosh send messages to: pythonmac-sig(a)python.org administrivia to: pythonmac-sig-request(a)python.org _______________

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New Regular Expressions
by Jeffrey C. Ollie April 17, 1997

April 17, 1997

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I (along with the rest of us on the STRING SIG) are working on an update to the regular expression package for inclusion in Python 1.5. I would like to make sure that the new code runs on Macs. I have a Mac at home, but no compiler. So I'd appreciate it if someone could pick up a copy and see if it works. Hopefully, I'll be able to afford CodeWarrior sometime this summer. I would have already bought it, but it's tax time here in the U.S. :) The code can be found at: <http://www.ollie.clive.ia.us/jeff/python/regex/patches.html> [A copy of the headers and the PGP signature follow.] Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 12:15:09 -0500 From: "Jeffrey C. Ollie" <jeff(a)ollie.clive.ia.us> Subject: New Regular Expressions To: pythonmac-sig(a)python.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: AnySign 1.4 - A Python tool for PGP signing e-mail and news. iQCVAwUBM1O3o5wkOQz8sbZFAQEktgQAuo9i8SNY5LFpUZ/+5fDrz5AEpyG7tYIW eLn5QL8mV+zZxcpgk3E/j2t/Vf4oPcgFBpujJNImhI0XSMBhYqZNLdZXpjTr0tsi ExPNFC5VmwS61W8b/tXnT9PGclP55sTzgz1NhdkDOviHyejFdkmxo9HBsL1A0EQb hh4fZkMi75g= =4Z2i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Jeffrey C. Ollie | Should Work Now (TM) Python Hacker, Mac Lover | _______________ PYTHONMAC-SIG - SIG on Python for the Apple Macintosh send messages to: pythonmac-sig(a)python.org administrivia to: pythonmac-sig-request(a)python.org _______________

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Test message
by Bill Bedford April 16, 1997

April 16, 1997

This is a test, but does anyone know the format of the apple date object string? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Bedford Designer of Photo-Etches billb(a)mousa.demon.co.uk owner Brit_Rail-L --- british railways historical list ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________ PYTHONMAC-SIG - SIG on Python for the Apple Macintosh send messages to: pythonmac-sig(a)python.org administrivia to: pythonmac-sig-request(a)python.org _______________

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buglet in PythonSlave (BBPy)
by just＠knoware.nl April 15, 1997

April 15, 1997

Jurjen N.E. Bos found a really stupid problem with PythonSlave.py: It didn't execute code in a proper namespace, which caused globals not being accesible from functions. This is the fix: line 90 in PythonSlave.py was: exec stuff and should be: exec stuff in {} I guess nobody really used it so far (I don't even use it ;-), which might explain that it wasn't found earlier. Just _______________ PYTHONMAC-SIG - SIG on Python for the Apple Macintosh send messages to: pythonmac-sig(a)python.org administrivia to: pythonmac-sig-request(a)python.org _______________

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Quit Python from AppleScripts?
by guzdial＠cc.gatech.edu April 7, 1997

April 7, 1997

Is there anyway to Quit a terminated PythonPPC program via AppleScripts? I'm trying to write a script that I can execute remotely that will kill a crashed Python program (POO dies occasionally with disconnected <garbage characters> and then a crash on the map over connected lines) and then restart it. I can restart it okay, but it seems that Python doesn't understand the Application Quit event, so I can only restart it manually. (Or restart the whole Finder, but that's a bit drastic.) Suggestions? Thanks! Mark -------------------------- Mark Guzdial : Georgia Tech : College of Computing : Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 (404) 894-5618 : Fax (404) 894-0673 : guzdial(a)cc.gatech.edu http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Mark.Guzdial.html _______________ PYTHONMAC-SIG - SIG on Python for the Apple Macintosh send messages to: pythonmac-sig(a)python.org administrivia to: pythonmac-sig-request(a)python.org _______________

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