🌐 Mailman 3 October 2000 - Pythonmac-SIG - python.org

2.0c1 -- EditPythonPrefs Balloon Help
by Russell Finn Oct. 16, 2000

Oct. 16, 2000

This is probably not a showstopper, but you asked that problems be reported as soon as possible... The balloon help in the "Default startup options..." dialog box in EditPythonPrefs is all messed up -- most controls show the wrong balloon help message. (I imagine this is easy to fix, but not critical.) -- Russell S. Finn Principal Software Engineer OPNET Technologies, Inc. Phone: (202) 364-4700 x2401 Fax: (202) 364-6182 Email: rfinn(a)opnet.com

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Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Process-to-Process Communication Toolbox support in Python.
by Erik van Blokland Oct. 16, 2000

Oct. 16, 2000

Suresh L Konda, 10/16/00 17:25: > Does Python v 1.5.2c1 have support for PPC (Apple's IPC!) toolbox? If >so, could some kind >soul send me a pointer (or even better, example code) of how to use it >to let two processes communicate? Many thanks. When I looked into this to get a handle on the way appleevents are sent to other machines, the PPC did not seem to be supported, unfortunately. But I don't have x-ray python source-seeing eyes. Erik

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Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Python on on a second drive
by Jack Jansen Oct. 16, 2000

Oct. 16, 2000

Okay. So it seems that applets will not work correctly if Python is installed on a drive different than the boot drive. I could try detecting this situation in the installer or ConfigurePython, and offering to copy PythonCore to the extension folder (in stead of creating the alias). Is that a good idea? -- 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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Process-to-Process Communication Toolbox support in Python.
by Suresh L Konda Oct. 16, 2000

Oct. 16, 2000

Hello, Does Python v 1.5.2c1 have support for PPC (Apple's IPC!) toolbox? If so, could some kind soul send me a pointer (or even better, example code) of how to use it to let two processes communicate? Many thanks. Suresh

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MacPython 2.0c1 and LinearAlgebra/Matrix
by Paul Miller Oct. 16, 2000

Oct. 16, 2000

I am having problems using Numeric with Python 2.0c1: import LinearAlgebra and import Matrix both report that the modules are missing. Both of these worked with 2.0b1. Is this a bug, or have I just missed something? Paul Miller

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MacPython20c1
by Tony Vignaux Oct. 16, 2000

Oct. 16, 2000

As requested, I am reporting on success with installing MacPython20c1, loading on 1) PowerMac 6100/60 MacOS 8.5.1 2) PowerBook 1400cs MacOS 8.6 I have loaded and used Piddle with this version. However, Python cannot see the LinearAlgebra module of Numeric. Do I have to do something special to get it to load this module? I got the impression that it would be loaded with the rest of Numeric. >>> from Numeric import * >>> from LinearAlgebra import * Traceback (most recent call last): File "<input>", line 1, in ? ImportError: No module named LinearAlgebra >>> Tony Vignaux Prof G A (Tony) Vignaux email:Tony.Vignaux@mcs.vuw.ac.nz Statistics and Operations Research, MCS, Ph: +64(4)463 5276 Victoria University, PO Box 600,Wellington. Fax: +64(4)463 5045 New Zealand Home:+64(4)934 7851 www: http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~vignaux Mobile +64 21 89 7851

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MacPython 2.0c1 available
by Jack Jansen Oct. 15, 2000

Oct. 15, 2000

MacPython 2.0c1 is available, both as binary installer and in source form. You can find it through http://www.cwi.nl/~jac/macpython.html. If people give it a testdrive please let me know whether it works, and, in the unlikely event it doesn't:-) what the problems are. Thanks, -- 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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ReadMe in 2.0c1 installer
by John W Baxter Oct. 14, 2000

Oct. 14, 2000

About a quarter of the way down, there is a reference to "if you have recently installed another copy of 2.0b1...". I don't know enough about the preference file format issue to know what might need to be adjusted there, but it feels wrong "as is". And my private query about whether it's time to adjust www.python.org URLs to www.pythonlabs.com URLs applies in the ReadMe as well. (And yes, I read the ReadMe through to the end...so it has happened at least once this year.) --John -- John Baxter jwblist(a)olympus.net Port Ludlow, WA, USA

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EditPythonPrefs problem fixed
by Jack Jansen Oct. 13, 2000

Oct. 13, 2000

Ok, I fixed the EditPythonPrefs problem. Or, fixed, worked-around more likely. The problem is that modal appearance dialogs need to get their activate event iafter they've been overlayed by another dialog (and this dialog has subsequently gone again) to re-enable their buttons. But: the activate event is quietly eaten by the MacPython mainloop event handling code. The workaround is to call MacOS.SchedParams(1,0) before posting a modal dialog that may be overlayed. But if anyone has a better solution: please let me know... -- 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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Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Re: shared libs in extension folder
by Jack Jansen Oct. 13, 2000

Oct. 13, 2000

That is indeed more-or-less what I do *IF* (biiiiiiig if) I don't forget it. And, about half the time I do a distribution I forget it. As for the 2.0c1 distribution. Grmpf. The number I use for the fragment version, by the way, is sys.hexversion. That's a nice ever-increasing value. -- 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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