🌐 Mailman 3 April 2004 - Pythonmac-SIG - python.org

Re: Pythonmac-SIG Digest, Vol 12, Issue 23
by Daniel Lord April 19, 2004

April 19, 2004

> On 4/18/04 11:00 AM, I wrote: > >> On 4/18/04 10:54 AM, "has" <hengist.podd(a)virgin.net> wrote: >> >>> Apologies, must've been asleep when implementing date >>> packing/unpacking - used the wrong time for the Mac epoch. Fixed now: >>> >>> http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/appscript-0.4.7.tar.gz >> >> That's good news. It means, as I expected, that all those iCal >> AppleScript >> date bugs are purely within iCal's feeble AppleScript implementation, >> not >> in the underlying AppleEvents. A great reason, on its own, for using >> has's >> appscript in Python rather than iCal AppleScript. > > Well, maybe someone should check setting and getting start and end > dates of > allday events, and getting due dates of todos made in the UI, to be > sure... > > > -- > Paul Berkowitz Since I was the one who complained it is only fair I do it. It may take me a few days to get around to it, but I'll check it out and let Paul and HAS and anyone else interested know what I find. I've been distracted with Excel today--trying to use appscript to read and write worksheet cell and ranges...ugh! Not working, but then M$ implementation of AS has always been 'out there' anyway. DL

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Problem with iCal and appscript
by Daniel Lord April 18, 2004

April 18, 2004

HAS's appscript is a great achievement and very useful but I have noticed a problem on my system with the demo program from his site: the datetime object is shifted by -12 hours when added to iCal. The demo puts the entry "First pants, then shoes" in the Calendar on the 16th at 1200 rather than on the 17th, (presumably at 0000). I tried a few different configurations of dates and all were shifted by 12 hours I am in PDT (GMT +8) so it isn't a UTC issue, otherwise the shift would be 8 not 12. I do use a 24-hour clock in my preferences and an international time/date setting and thought that may be the problem. But, setting the defaults didn't fix this. The Python datetime library seems to work correctly. This is with iCal 1.5.2. Perhaps something changed from version 1.0 that is interpreting the hour field differently? Anybody have an idea?

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Arggh! How to resolve link problems in OS X
by Kenneth McDonald April 17, 2004

April 17, 2004

Over that last week, I've run into a couple of occasions wherein a distutils install attempts to compile some C files against Tk, and fails. Using my very limited amount of link knowledge, it seems that they are not finding the Tk headers and libraries due to the fact that these reside in a Frameworks structure, rather than in the traditional UNIX file structure. Things may also be complicated by the fact that I suspect I have elements of Tk/X11 lying around as well as the AquaTclTk I am actually using with Python. My question is; what is the best way to set things up so that python compilations looking for these (or other) sources actually find them? I could probably just go in and hack away until I got things working this time, but that could get rather messy, and I would no doubt have to repeat it in the future. Do any of the pythonistas out there have favored solutions? Modify path settings? Create links in standard UNIX locations? Modify/update disutils? My preference is for as general a solution as possible, so if yours goes beyond addressing just Python/Tk link/compile problems, that's cool. Thanks, Ken

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Python, Server Solutions MySQL, and MySQLdb
by Andrew Morris April 16, 2004

April 16, 2004

Hi, I'm something of a new python user, and I've been trying to write a set of cgi scripts to enter data into a database running on my computer. Its the MySQL package, as installed by the Server Logistics prepackaged bundle, with python installed off Fink. The MySQL bundle installs into /Library/MySQL. The system is Mac OSX 10.2 (Jaguar, updated to whatever the latest minor update number is) When i try to install mySQLdb, it throws up an error saying 'ld' can't find '-lmysqlclient'. I've searched the web, and tried to interpret the stuff there, which means I've opened up setup.py and tried to fix the include and lib directories to point to '/Library/MySQL/include' and '/Library/MySQL/lib/mysql', which is where the header (.h files are headers right?) files and the .dynlib files live respectively. But it still throws up the same error, that it can't find -lmysqlclient. I've tried to fiddle around with the alias files in there using the ln command, but I can't seem to get that to work properly at all (is the link itself in the arguments first or is the actual file that you're linking to first in the arguments, it doesn't seem to work properly either way, but that's another thing I cant figure out). Any help you could give me would be very useful, otherwise I may have to junk the project, and use another way of accessing the database. Thanks in advance, Andrew

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RE: [Pythonmac-SIG] Trying to track down a bug in BitTorrent for Mac OS 9
by Schollnick, Benjamin April 15, 2004

April 15, 2004

> >> But for some reason, under OS 9, it takes an absurd amount > of time -- > >> something like 1 hour per 100 MB. > > >virtual memory implementation on MacOS9. [...] > >in the "About this macintosh" window. If that goes through > the roof this > VM use would be > >continuous disk activity (noise from the drive, flashing > lights if you have an external drive). > > Alas, neither of these signs seems to be happening -- the > (internal, IDE)disk doesn't sound like it's thrashing, and the > PythonInterpreter doesn't jump in memory usage at all -- it's > using about 20% of a 23.2 MB memory allotment. > > So...what's your second guess? ;) I mimght be jumping to conclusions... Especially since I have not examined the Bittorrent code... (I keep meaning to....) But could something be blocking the IO requests? Or locking the queue that the requests are in? Since Mac OS 9 is co-operatively multitasking, something else that is running, including the OS, could be starving the OS 9 Bittorrent client for Cycles... Try opening the Bittorrent client, and quiting *everything* else, including the finder and see if there is any change. The easiest way to quit the finder, and everything else is to whip up a applescript that opens bittorrent, and then closes everything else.. The pity is that I had a applescript like that for another application, but I don't have it available now.... - Benjamin

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Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Trying to track down a bug in BitTorrent for Mac OS 9
by Phil April 15, 2004

April 15, 2004

Jack Jansen wrote: >> But for some reason, under OS 9, it takes an absurd amount of time -- >> something like 1 hour per 100 MB. >My first guess is to check whether it has something to do with the lousy >virtual memory implementation on MacOS9. [...] >The tell-tale sign of this would be to check the memory usage of Python >in the "About this macintosh" window. If that goes through the roof this >may be your problem. [...] another telltale sign of heavy VM use would be >continuous disk activity (noise from the drive, flashing lights if you >have an >external drive). Alas, neither of these signs seems to be happening -- the (internal, IDE) disk doesn't sound like it's thrashing, and the PythonInterpreter doesn't jump in memory usage at all -- it's using about 20% of a 23.2 MB memory allotment. So...what's your second guess? ;) Thanks very much for your reply! Let me know if I can supply any additional information that might be useful. Best, Phil

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Interacting with internal modem from Python
by James Reese April 15, 2004

April 15, 2004

What is the easiest way to interact with a Mac's internal modem from Python (OS X 10.3.3)? I want to set the modem's parameters (parity, speed, etc.) and place an outgoing call. Any pointers will be greatly appreciated. Jim Reese

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hi list
by Aldo Bergamini April 15, 2004

April 15, 2004

Hello list, I just suscribed to the PythonMac SIG list. And I have a question on file copying... (I am sorry if this has been asked ad nauseam; I tried to look up in the archives, but I did not get to a search page) BTW: I am happy to get pointed to a do-it-yourself search page to get an answer by myself. **** Yesterday I started a small exercise in Python, on my Powerbook (OS X 10.3). The goal is to have a smart copy command that I'll use to extract files from an iBook that needs to go to service. The iBook owner did not backup on regular basis and now needs as many of his pictures as I can get out of the machine (that remains usable just for a few minutes per 'rescue session'). So I am writing (for the fun of it) a small incremental copy utility. The idea is to copy as many files as I can everytime I can get the iBook to run in firewire mode; eventually the thing will freeze. On the next run the tool will start from the last partially copied file and go on until it's done or to the next freeze. The question is how to copy Mac files from an HFS+ partition to another HFS+ partition. I was looking on the Python Essential Reference for os helper tools and modules and came across the shutil module and its file/ directory tools. The caveat in the book is that mac resource forks are not copied. OTH the macostools does the right thing, copying both forks. My question is, as Mac OS X is a Unix os, how does python behave on Mac OS X, the unix way or the Mac way? Do I have to use the copying function in shutil or the one in macostools? Do the stat functions report a res-fork comprehensive size or the size of the data fork (this is important to know that I have copied all bits and pieces of a rescued file, specially when I restart rescueing data after the iBook freezed). Thanks Aldo

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Converting audio files, AIFF, MP3, AAC
by Dinu Gherman April 14, 2004

April 14, 2004

Hi, I'm trying to convert between AIFF and MP3 in order to edit MP3 audio files in AIFF format and want to build some Pythonic glue around that... AIFF to MP3 works great using the LAME plugin for iTunes [1]. This bundle contains a compiled lame executable that one can also use nice- ly from the command-line. Now what I'm looking for is a way for automated decoding of MP3 to AIFF. I've found MACAST MP3 Converter 1.0.1 [2], a Carbon GUI which decodes MP3 very quickly, but it seems to be doing a lot of busy waiting and a command-line tool is what I need, anyway. BTW, I see the former (?) aiff module in the standard library (now called aifc [3]) provides access to sound frames, etc (haven't really used it, though). Is there anything similar for MP3 and/or even AAC files? Thanks for any ideas, Dinu [1] http://www.blacktree.com/apps/iTunes-LAME/index.php [2] http://www.macast.com/download.shtml [3] http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-aifc.html

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simple nib loading
by Jack Nutting April 13, 2004

April 13, 2004

Hi all, I'm writing a little game using pygame, primarily as a python-learning exercise. While my goal is to keep it cross-platform, I'd like to add platform-specific niceties such as a .nib file containing a proper menu etc for the Mac version. I've tried to include a .nib file using bundlebuilder by including the nib in my 'resources' (it is successfully copied) and the '--nib' command-line option, but so far no good; All I get is the bare-bones menu at the top. All I want to do with the .nib is have a menu with an 'About' panel and such (no actual integration with the python code itself), so I don't want to get too deep into PyObjC issues or anything just yet. Any ideas, anyone? (the work-in-progress is available at http://www.nuthole.com/spinvaders.zip, feedback is welcome! ) //jack

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