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

Apple Event Manager
by Ken Koller July 26, 2004

July 26, 2004

Hi, I've been using Python for several years on the PC. I'm comfortable with Unix too so writing Python to access OS X via a shell is no problem. What I really want to do now is explore controlling applications from Python. Specifically Final Cut Pro to automate some video editing functionality. I've done a few searches and it seems that accessing the Apple Event Manager is the way to do this. Can someone point me to a good starting place? A simple example would be great. Also, comments on the various packages? Thanks, Ken

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ANN: PyOXIDE 0.6.3 - Cocoa based Python IDE
by Glenn Andreas July 24, 2004

July 24, 2004

PyOXIDE 0.6.3 is now available for abuse. The major addition (thanks to the "Matlab-like IDE" thread) is the "debug console" which allows you to execute an interactive shell within the context of the current debugging location (and this works for both local and remote debugging). It also fixes some build issues that caused preferences to not work (so you can finally set custom keyboard commands). The project has also been converted to being built as an XCode "native" project (no more Project Builder support). PyOXIDE 0.6.3 has only been tested with 10.3, but should work with 10.2 (assuming it can find the python framework). The sources are built using XCode 1.1 on 10.3. PyOXIDE 0.6.3 is now available on my idisk (as PyOXIDE_0.6.3.dmg): from the pather finder, "connect to other public folder" and type in "gandreas" or http://projects.gandreas.com/pyoxide/ If you want to build from source, you'll need to get PyOXIDE_Src_0.6.3.dmg, and IDEKit_0.2.3.dmg (also built XCode 1.2 on 10.3). IDEKit_0.2.3.dmg is found either on the idisk above or <http://projects.gandreas.com/idekit/> PyOXIDE source is covered under a BSD-style license. The IDEKit framework is covered under LGPL, so you can freely link it in other projects. <shameless site pimping> If you have problems, questions, enhancment request, etc, please submit request at <http://bugs.gandreas.com> (hopefully it should work - you'll have to make a new account, but the PyOXIDE database is publically available), and feel free to post questions/comments/public discussion to <http://boards.gandreas.com> </shameless site pimping> -- Glenn Andreas gandreas(a)gandreas.com mondo blobbo, Cythera, Theldrow, oh my! Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know

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Wanted: stand-in moderator
by Jack Jansen July 23, 2004

July 23, 2004

Folks, is anyone willing to act as a temporary moderator for pythonmac-sig while I'm away on holidays, 3 weeks starting this weekend? Preferably someone who has used mailman before... The task is simple, but boring: you get about 50 email messages per day about postings being held. You visit the moderator page, look through the subjects, and usually it's clear they're all viruses or other junk, then you simply select the "discard all postings marked as held" and press submit. Once every three or four days there'll be something resembling a legitimate message which you then have to look at, and possibly accept before cleaning out the other junk. Skip Montanero is co-moderator, but he hasn't replied to my email earlier this week, so I think he may be away too. -- 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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Fwd: [wxPython-mac] Newbie Question
by Kevin Ollivier July 22, 2004

July 22, 2004

Hi Sergi, Try right-clicking on a script, selecting "Open With", then selecting "Python Launcher". Does the script work if you do that? Also, did you install MacPython (i.e. by downloading it from python.org) or the "MacPython Additions" from here: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython/download.html On Panther, there is already a complete installation of Python, so you do not even need to install it. If you *did* install the complete MacPython Jaguar package, then you can find removal instructions here: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython/uninstall.html Please let me know if this helps! Kevin Begin forwarded message: > From: Sergi Mansilla Molins <sergi(a)mans-hq.net> > Date: July 22, 2004 6:10:21 AM PDT > To: wxPython-mac(a)lists.wxwidgets.org > Subject: [wxPython-mac] Newbie Question > Reply-To: wxPython-mac(a)lists.wxwidgets.org > > I have installed wxpython and macpython in my ibook with panther. But > the sample scripts that come qith the packages doesn't execute. They > call the python IDE but the "run all" button doesn't work. > > Do I have to do something apart of simply install the necessary > packages? > > Thanks in advance and sorry for such a newbie question. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: wxPython-mac-unsubscribe(a)lists.wxwidgets.org > For additional commands, e-mail: wxPython-mac-help(a)lists.wxwidgets.org >

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wxpython debugging
by Tom Pollard July 21, 2004

July 21, 2004

Hi, I've recently started trying to develop a simple wxPython application, but have become frustrated by the fact that I can't get tracebacks when my scripts crash. It looks like the traceback is automatically directed to a GUI window when running my wxpython script, rather than the terminal or the console, but this window is closed immediately when the script exits. Is there anyway to force tracebacks to be sent to the terminal? Thanks, TomP In case it's useful, I'm running the standard Python installed with Panther (plus MacPython additions), and the most recent official release of WxPython.

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PDF creation using CoreGraphics
by João Leão July 21, 2004

July 21, 2004

Hi list! I've been doing some experiences with CoreGraphics to generate PDF documents. As a starting point I took a look at the examples in "/Developer/Examples/Quartz/Python/". Examining the "image.py" example I was able to write a script that imports an image, resizes and places it in a PDF Page. For this I'm using the same steps as in that example. The placement of the image is made with the method "drawImage" in the PDF Context, that draws the image in a given rect. However, I noticed that the PDF gets the same size (in this case 3,7 M because it was a big image) even if I "resize" it to an area of 50 x 50 px. It appears that "drawImage" scales the image but maintains the number of pixels. This is very clear when you zoom the PDF. Maybe I have to -really- resize the image before I place it in the PDF or maybe there is some way of optimizing the PDF after. I need it to be lightweight. Any suggestions on how to do this? Before asking here I looked the documentation (the API and the Apple Docs) which I think is good, but couldn't figure it out. I'm not an experienced programmer and don't know how to 'glue' all this classes and methods to address my needs... Thanks everyone. _ joao

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Setting paths
by Aldo Bergamini July 21, 2004

July 21, 2004

I am faced with a very basic question: how to set paths to be able to create a package with my .py source files. The setup is simple: I do use BBEdit to write the code and to launch the test scripts. Of course I am using the nice shell/worksheet feature of BBEdit to start the test scripts. There is a bunch of folders at some location like: /Users/aldo/Documents/ .... /Pegasus/Objectspace In the Pegasus folder there is an __init__.py file, as well as in the subfolders that should host different parts of the would-be-package. I tried to set an environment variable hoping to pass some information the the interpreter: >set PYTHONPATH = "/Users/aldo/Documents/Work/Amministrazione/Budgeting/ >Budget_proj/Pegasus/" Strangely I cant't read it back.. >$PYTHONPATH >tcsh: /Users/aldo/Documents/Work/Amministrazione/Budgeting/Budget_proj/ >Pegasus/: Permission denied. And the interpreter, when I launch a test script that opens a .py file in the same subfolder as the test code, stops as it get to the import lines: >import sys >import exceptions >import Pegasus It obviously has no clue where to look for my 'package'; how should I set the correct path (pointing to a folder that is in a "Finder-handy" place)? TIA Aldo

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Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] list of fonts
by Ronald Oussoren July 20, 2004

July 20, 2004

On Tuesday, July 20, 2004, at 09:52AM, Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen(a)cwi.nl> wrote: > >On 19 Jul 2004, at 19:35, Cameron Laird wrote: >>> import sys >>> import codecs >>> from AppKit import * >> . >> . >> . >> I haven't been keeping up; what's it take to be able to >> import AppKit >> ? The Python installed with 10.3.3 certainly doesn't seem >> to know about it. > >It's part of PyObjC (the Python to Objective C, and hence Cocoa, >bridge). >You need to install it separately. This is easiest through the Package >Manager. (And if you don't have the Package Manager: go to >http://www.cwi. nl/~jack/macpython and download the MacPython for >Panther Additions). There's also an installer at pyobjc.sf.net, this will install Xcode templates as well. Ronald >-- >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 > >_______________________________________________ >Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG(a)python.org >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig > >

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list of fonts
by Arthur Elsenaar July 20, 2004

July 20, 2004

Hi, how do I get a list of the available system fonts? I tried doing this in pygame, but the darwin code to do this is unimplemented. I see a carbon.fm (font manager) module, but how does this work? Thanks, Arthur.

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Request for help for 2.4
by Jack Jansen July 16, 2004

July 16, 2004

Folks, I need help debugging things I'm doing for 2.4, so I would be grateful if people would migrate to it if they can. The most important change that is already in 2.4a1 (i.e. you can try it now!) is Bob's fix for the "two python problem": on 10.3 extensions are linked in such a way that they should work in any interpreter. *BUT* because I'm not 100% convinced yet that this fix doesn't break anything, and to ensure backwards compatibility, this feature is only enabled if you have MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 in your environment when configuring and building python. Currently, distutils complains if you had that setting during configure but not when building extensions. This is the safest route, but also a bit of a nuisance. For a later alpha or beta release I can see three routes we could take: 1. Do away with the whole thing because it breaks things (I don't think this will happen) 2. Leave as-is, i.e. you must have MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 set to enable the new functionality. 3. Make life a bit easier: if MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET isn't set during distutils extension building we set it to the value at configure time. 4. Make life still easier: if you're on 10.3 and MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET isn't set during configure we set it to "10.3". This means naive 10.3 users get the 2-python-fix automatically, but isn't consistent with Apple's usage (which says that MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET defaults to 10.1). But I'm not sure of the value of Apple's default, as your object files may be 10.1 compatible if you build on 10.3 but your libraries sure aint. For now, I'd like people to build and test with MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 and report their findings. -- 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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