🌐 Mailman 3 March 2005 - Pythonmac-SIG - python.org

RE: IDE recommendation
by Lee Cullens March 30, 2005

March 30, 2005

Relative to my previous post : RE: SPE-OSX IDE with Python on Mac or others? I'm leery of SPE, so maybe a more general recommendation - an IDE I can "grow with" that has a significant user base, is still reasonably maintained (maybe even evolving). I'll work out how to integrate Python scripts in Blender when I get to that point, but for now I need to create modules (duh - text edit), debug, package and deliver on an OS X platform. It seems there should be a viable sandbox to work within. I'm aware of the Wing IDE but have not purchased it yet - I don't know enough yet to know if is really worth it. Thanks, Lee C

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RE: SPE-OSX IDE with Python on Mac or others?
by Lee Cullens March 29, 2005

March 29, 2005

Greetings, Dual 2.5 Power Mac G5; OS X 10.3.8 (retired software engineer in the process of learning Python and new to Mac) I wanted to kill two birds at once in using an IDE that "supposedly" integrates with Blender3D and can be used otherwise. So I downloaded SPE-OSX which came as a zip folder with both binary and source (after downloading and installing wxPython - already had MacPython add-ons and Blender). I moved the SPE-OSX folder that was downloaded to /Applications/MacPython-2.3, and the Kiki, wxGladeOSX and XRCed executables all bring up a window, but the SPE-OSX executable doesn't make it that far (flash on double click, and HD activity, but nothing more). I am wondering if anyone knows what is missing (path definition/whatever) to bring up the SPE IDE, or if I'm wasting my time? I notice their hasn't been much activity with SPE since late 2003 / early 2004 and no mail list on the site to search - has the author moved on to bigger and better things? Currently I'm using PythonIDE - have to manually type the URL for the PackageManager when I occasionally look at it, but the docs are an easy click away (which I access more often). I also have IDLE but with 10.3.8 the help docs are screwed up so I went back to PythonIDE. I would like a better sandbox and thus was trying to use SPE, but would really appreciate and recommendations/comments/ref links/whatever :~) Thank you, Lee C

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Dabo and mysqldb
by Mark Phillips March 29, 2005

March 29, 2005

I am trying to get Dabo up and running on MacOS 10.3.8. I have installed dabo and wxPython. I am tripping over mysqldb, being mysql-python-1.2.0. MySQL 4.x is installed and running. When I execute "setup.py build", I am getting a long series of errors that begin with sh: line 1: mysql_config: command not found and continue with more shell and gcc errors. I ran setup.py as "su" and not; no joy. The Dabo readme states: "The setup.py script uses mysql_config to find all compiler and linker options, and should work as is on any POSIX-like platform, so long as mysql_config is in your path." I cannot find a file named "mysql_config". Any links, comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated. - Mark "I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate." - George Burns

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Re: Pythonmac-SIG Digest, Vol 23, Issue 42
by Jon Schull March 27, 2005

March 27, 2005

> MacEnthon 0.0 Prerelease > This looks great. Have you considered adding vpython to this package? It uses numarray, plays well with ipython, and is of unsurpassed simplicity and elegance.

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plistservices 3 is available
by Sarwat Khan March 26, 2005

March 26, 2005

I've released plistservices v3 at http://sarwat.net/opensource/ The main feature it adds is that it indents the XML output as CoreFoundation does. I think the only difference in the output is that CF will put newlines at well-placed spots in the CFData objects, and I didn't want to bother. => This point is the end of the useful part of this message. The reason why it took so long to do indenting was a matter of principle. I was sick of the thought of doing yet another XML/HTML-output chunk of code that passes a stupid indent param along the recursion. At this point, it's been 2+ years since I've had to do that, so it doesn't have the same sting anymore (I am noticing however, that the more I think about the fact that I did it, the more it bugs me). Also, I found myself not wanting to use plistservices for some things because of the fugly XML it produced. This is actually version 4. Version 3 has been sitting on my computers since 2003, and apparently I forgot to release it. Back then I modified it so it was a nice replacement for mx.DateTime in MySQLdb's times.py. That was back when MySQLdb was at version 0.94; MySQLdb was then assuming Python 2.2, which doesn't have the datetime module. The fact that I didn't put newlines in CFData XML is starting to gnaw at my brain. We'll see what happens. Anyway, enjoy. Sarwat. {sarwat khan : http://sarwat.net}

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MacEnthon ...
by Robert Kern March 25, 2005

March 25, 2005

... is not here, yet! But it will be! I have one more issue to work out before cutting a pre-release. Sadly, I must get some science done today. So I issue a challenge to the PythonMac masses: Write me an uninstaller. Standalone GUI is a plus, although I can live with a CLI script. For now, it only needs to be run by the intrepid testers. One ought to be able to uninstall indivdual packages. Almost all of the packages are built using bdist_mpkg. A few are made by PackageMaker.app. Another few (MacPython extras and wxPython, notably) come from their original, non-bdist_mpkg packagers. Assume that you can have a list of packages to check for hard-coded. Everything gets installed somewhere under - /Developer/Documentation/Enthon - /Developer/Python - /Library/Python/2.3 - /usr/local - /Applications/MacPython-2.3 In return for your generosity, you get my eternal gratitude[1], the beverage of your choice should we happen to be in the same city somewhen, and a brand spankin' new MacEnthon by Monday. wxPython has a CLI uninstaller for itself that you can steal from. Attached is the current MacEnthon ReadMe thingy. Yell at me if there's something obviously bogus in it (but no package requests, please. We'll talk about adding to this 157Mib behemoth later). [1] Which I imagine will be somewhat tricky to fulfill once I die, but that just makes it *so* much more valuable. -- Robert Kern rkern(a)ucsd.edu "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter

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Having trouble installing Panther python packages
by nmadnani＠mac.com March 24, 2005

March 24, 2005

Hi Guys I am having trouble installing the python packages at http://pythonmac.org/packages/ Everytime I unzip the file and install the .mpkg file, I get the following error: "The InstallationCheck tool is either not exectutable or not readable." 1) I chmod'ed +x the "InstallationCheck" script in the Resouces folder. Didn't help 2) I did a google search and found someone else having the same problem, but they said that it was fixed if they used StuffIt Expander to unzip the file and not 'unzip'. I used both and I am having the same problems in both cases. 3) I looked at what the file 'InstallationCheck' contained in the pkg and it was just this: #!/bin/sh exit 112 So I thought I would just delete it and that should be ok. Nope, same problems. 4) I contacted Bob Ippolito and he was kind enought to provide some suggestions but could not help much because he could not reproduce the problems on any of his macs. So, if anyone else is having the same problems and has managed to fix it, I would really appreciate any advice ! Thanks in advance ! Nitin

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RE: [Pythonmac-SIG] XML handler design
by Henning.Ramm＠mediapro-gmbh.de March 24, 2005

March 24, 2005

>> And where should the "output" go to? >> All examples use print statements in the element handlers. >I'm not certain we are clear. Instead of output statements you >store the data in some instance variable - in your case it appears >self.pages is your instance variable containing the data. Right. >So your >endElement method would set something in self.pages based on the tag >indicated and the data built up from the characters method and any of >the attrs from the start tag. If all your data is in the attrs >that you >get in the startElement tag then there's no need to do anything in the >characters or endElement methods. If you want to use the >startElement/characters/endElement approach, I can try to find a small >example I've written and send it to you off-list. I need the different element handlers (start, end and characters) to collect lots of small data parts that are spread all over the file and make a series of objects from it (stored in self.pages). My first attempt used DOM, but I get a cleaner, more readable, better extendable code with SAX. And I guess it's easier to make a SAX parser asynchronous. I'd be interested in your code, if you were so kind. (I'm on going in holidays now, so I guess you'll get an out of office reply, but I'll read my mail sometimes.) Best regards, Henning Hraban Ramm Südkurier Medienhaus / MediaPro Support/Admin/Development Dept.

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Copying to clipboard (pasteboard)
by Jeremy Conlin March 24, 2005

March 24, 2005

I have a little python script that reads a text file and prints what it finds to the screen. Not everything it finds, of course, just the important stuff. Instead of printing to the screen, or in addition to printing to the screen, I would also like to copy the text to the clipboard so I can paste it in another application. Does anyone know how to do this? In my searching, I have found things like Carbon.Scrap, but it has very little documentation and so is of no help to me. Thanks, Jeremy

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RE: [Pythonmac-SIG] Copying to clipboard (pasteboard)
by Schollnick, Benjamin March 24, 2005

March 24, 2005

> > import Carbon.Scrap, AppKit, Foundation > > > > def clipcopy(arg): > > Carbon.Scrap.ClearCurrentScrap() > > scrap = Carbon.Scrap.GetCurrentScrap() > > scrap.PutScrapFlavor('TEXT', 0, arg) > That worked! Thanks a bunch. > (Now I get to show what kind of a newbie I am.) Why should I > put this into a class? Is it just better programming practice? Well, making this into a class could allow you to simply extend the functionality.... For example, you could store the changes in a LIST/queue and use the class to store multiple clipboard entries.... >I suppose the > answer may depend on what the script does and how complicated it is. Exactly... It depends on how and what you are trying to do.... - Ben

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