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

Installing tkinter on Panther w/o PackageManager?
by W.T. Bridgman April 3, 2004

April 3, 2004

I've come across some messages from last December about building Tk so that it sees the Apple-installed Tcl and then building tkinter linking to the Apple-installed Python. Has anyone 'finalized' a procedure for installing tkinter without the PackageManager or Fink? I can't find anything on the Wiki about this option. Everyone seems to be pushing PM - not always an option for some installations. Thanks, Tom

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anyone seen F-script?
by Chris Ryland April 3, 2004

April 3, 2004

Wow, now *that's* what we need for an IDE--a completely integrated class browser & interactive interpreter (easy) and graphical object inspector. F-script is the perfect dynamic Cocoa language, thanks to its Smalltalk roots--too bad we can't "warp" the Python syntax somehow to make selector usage more pleasant. Has anyone played with F-script to assess its strengths and weaknesses? Cheers! --Chris Ryland / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com

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ANN: Preview of SystemConfiguration wrapper
by Bob Ippolito April 2, 2004

April 2, 2004

http://undefined.org/python/SystemConfiguration-0.1.tar.gz This is a source distribution, it requires PyObjC and Developer Tools. The wrapper itself is (entirely) an ObjC framework, but it includes everything necessary for Python wrapping. I haven't done any documentation, real tests, especially testing of the runloop integration.. but here it is if someone wants to play with it. The ObjC is a little sloppy (three classes in one file), and the setup.py is a lot sloppy (thanks to distutils being not easily extensible), but it works.. or at least it should. I'll be adding stuff from MoreSCF, probably tomorrow, and writing more tests/examples and possibly some documentation over the next couple days. -bob

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Py(ObjC)- plugins for iTunes?
by Dinu Gherman April 1, 2004

April 1, 2004

Hi, very briefly: can it be done, writing an iTunes plugin? I'd assume it might be possible with AppleScript, maybe... but, well, that's not what we want. In fact, there's a neat way of using Twisted to split streams from at least Shoutcast servers into pretty clean local MP3 files and I wonder how to tie this directly into iTunes? Dinu -- Dinu C. Gherman - http://python.net/~gherman ...................................................................... "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." (Alan Kay)

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Script to switch between two Pythons
by Jack Jansen April 1, 2004

April 1, 2004

I know for sure some else did this before, but I can't remember who it was and I couldn't find the script in question back anymore, so I re-created it. Attached is my script to switch between apple-python and user-python. Call without arguments to get current enabled/disabled state of both Pythons (plus information on any inconsistencies). Call with "apple" or "user" argument to enable that Python and disable the other. Please give it a try and let me know whether it works, and/or send me the other script again so we can combine the good points from either. Then I'll put it on the website or something. -- Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen(a)cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman

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path name issues
by C Smith April 1, 2004

April 1, 2004

I've noticed a wrinkle in Python operations regarding path names and some modules and am wondering how you all deal with the issue. EasyDialogs gives back path names with colons in them and functions in macpath think that paths have colons (and os.sep thinks the separator is a colon, too). What are people doing to handle this in scripts? I tend to hardcode in the volume name (macintosh hd) after changing all the '/'s to ':'. Is there a better way to get the volume name? (I'm nervous about using mac.getcwd because the directory could be changed to a different volume in a program, couldn't it?) I have really appreciated the transparent handling of line returns in scripts coming from different platforms. How big of an issue is it to try get the same treatment for path names? /c Putting http://wecanstopspam.org in your email helps it pass through overzealous spam filters.

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Bob Ippolito's synopsis of Python(s) on OS X
by Tom Loredo April 1, 2004

April 1, 2004

Hi folks- This post is for a dual purpose: first, to alert newcomers to MacPython that Bob Ippolito's PyCon2004 presentation is a great summary of the potentially confusing Python situation under OS X; and second, to publicly thank Bob for taking the time to put together so nice a presentation. I've been using Python on the Mac for years, and I still learned a lot from his presentation. It's available online here: http://www.python.org/pycon/dc2004/papers/32/ It might be useful to have this featured prominently on the MacPython page, and/or to have the contents rolled into the FAQ. It's the clearest self-contained summary of what's for what regarding Python on the Mac that I've yet come across. Thanks Bob! Tom Loredo

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