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Authentication via python?
by Benjamin Schollnick Aug. 21, 2009

Aug. 21, 2009

Folks, I¹m working on some time machine scripting... In a gist, there is a .Backup.log file that I want to access via readline & python.... >From the MOSX gui, it appears some of the files require root access (eg. Authentication dialog pops up). Now, I am using the applet maker to compile the python to a GUI stub, so I can¹t SUDO the python script... Is there some method that I can use to authenticate via the python script internally? I¹m in the middle of a google search on this, but I am having no luck at refining my search phrase currently (Macintosh python authenticate)... - Benjamin

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App distribution with eggs
by David Woods April 27, 2009

April 27, 2009

I'm updating my development tools for an application I've been distributing for a few years now. One of my critical imports, MySQLdb, gets built as an egg under by new system. In the past, I've used BundleBuilder for making my distributable app for the Mac and it's worked admirably. I can't figure out how to get BundleBuilder to include the MySQLdb egg, (I get "ImportError: no module named MySQLdb") and it looks to me like py2app doesn't support eggs either. My (perhaps inept) Googling hasn't revealed any likely suspects. What method do folks recommend for building distributable apps which have dependencies on eggs? David

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appscript install error using easy_install
by Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka March 29, 2009

March 29, 2009

Hi! Does anybody know why I get this error? sudo easy_install appscript Searching for appscript Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/appscript/ Reading http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/appscript.html Reading http://appscript.sourceforge.net Best match: appscript 0.19.0 Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/appscript/appscript-0.19.0.tar.gz#… Processing appscript-0.19.0.tar.gz Running appscript-0.19.0/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-2iBEHM/appscript-0.19.0/egg-dist-tmp-Xi3zVD zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents... No eggs found in /tmp/easy_install-2iBEHM/appscript-0.19.0/egg-dist-tmp-Xi3zVD (setup script problem?) Thanks, Raj

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PyGTK on OSX?
by Chris Van Bael March 11, 2009

March 11, 2009

Hi all, I'm trying to get our program to run on OSX (see www.schoolsplay.org) We use GTK and Pango for RTL support and better font rendering. I installed the framework from http://www.gtk-osx.org/, but PyGTK doesn't seem to be installed. Does anybody have an idea where I can get a binary build of PyGTK? Or where I can find building instructions that don't need DarwinPorts? Any particular things I have to keep in mind while making an Application Bundle with GTK on OSX? Thanks, Chris

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How to get setuptools to build a Universal Binary?
by Joe Strout Feb. 3, 2009

Feb. 3, 2009

I'm (still) trying to make a neatly packaged Python app that works on both PPC and Intel Macs. All is good except for mysqldb; following the procedure I've documented at <http://www.dotancohen.com/howto/python-app-mac.html>, my app bundle contains an Intel-only binary of the mysqldb library (libmysqlclient_r.16.dylib). This page (http://developer.apple.com/opensource/buildingopensourceuniversal.html) at Apple suggests a possible solution: build separate Intel and PPC binaries, and then combine them with lipo. But of course that's using Makefiles. MySQLdb instead uses setuptools. So: does anyone have a clue how I can convince setuptools to build a PPC binary (or better yet, a Universal one) on an Intel machine? This may or may not also be involved: <http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue19> Any advice will be greatly appreciated... Thanks, - Joe

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Multiple version of the same module
by pdorange＠mac.com Feb. 2, 2009

Feb. 2, 2009

How to manage a module with several versions on MacOS X ? My modules are installed in : "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-pa ckages/" But for some modules i need several version (stable 1.8.1 and test 1.9.0 for example : for pygame here). I've installed the stableone from source and i go into a "pygame-1.8.0release-py2.5-macosx-10.3-i386.egg" directory. I just install the 1.9 (for test) and it go into "pygame" directory So now i got 2 versions of pygame in the site-packages dir... When i import "pygame" from python, the 1.8.0 is imported only and 1.9.0 is complely ignored... How do python choose from several package ? Do package register them elsewhere ? I don't know how to test (temporaly) the 1.9, but alsobe able to go back easily to 18.8 after ? Any clue ? -- Pierre-Alain Dorange <http://microwar.sourceforge.net/>

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Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] appscript rocket-in-dock preventing logout
by has Jan. 31, 2009

Jan. 31, 2009

Bill Janssen wrote: > We discussed this a bit last year, but with no resolution that I > remember. I've got a situation where a Python program is preventing > logout/shutdown. It's a script that just runs in an endless loop > watching what app I'm working with; when it sees one it knows > (Preview, > MS Word, Safari, etc.) it uses appscript to ask the app what document > I'm looking at. It then squirrels that document away in a journal so > that I've got a record of what I've been working with. > > The basic control loop is something like this: > > while True: > ... see what's running, and possibly what document ... > time.sleep(1.0) See: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2008-December/020792.html Two options described there: replace your 'while True' loop with a Carbon/Cocoa event loop, allowing a GUI-based process to handle incoming events, or prevent the OS from automatically upgrading your python process to a GUI process (which it only does if it knows the executable is located in an application bundle, e.g. Python.app/ Contents/MacOS/python). Regards, has -- Control AppleScriptable applications from Python, Ruby and ObjC: http://appscript.sourceforge.net

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New release of macholib ?
by Thomas Deniau Jan. 31, 2009

Jan. 31, 2009

Hello, I've noticed that the newest release of macholib (1.1) came out in July 2006. Since then fixes have been made on the trunk to fix serious bugs such as the "unknown load command 27" problem. (see http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2007-June/019060.html ) This problem has become quite blocking now : with Leopard, even /bin/ ls has the "unknown load command 27" bug. Would it be possible to tag a new release of macholib in order to let port systems such as MacPorts integrate it within their distribution ? Thanks :-)

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pyobjc python3k languagebridge
by Nehemiah Dacres Jan. 31, 2009

Jan. 31, 2009

I have a few questions about Python Objective-C. First, how is the development of python3 objective-C going?will python3.0 objective3 be implimented with the Leopard scripting bridge? Is PowerPC a target for these developments? -- "lalalalala! it's not broken because I can use it" http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194281&threshold=1&commentsort=0&…

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appscript rocket-in-dock preventing logout
by Bill Janssen Jan. 30, 2009

Jan. 30, 2009

We discussed this a bit last year, but with no resolution that I remember. I've got a situation where a Python program is preventing logout/shutdown. It's a script that just runs in an endless loop watching what app I'm working with; when it sees one it knows (Preview, MS Word, Safari, etc.) it uses appscript to ask the app what document I'm looking at. It then squirrels that document away in a journal so that I've got a record of what I've been working with. The basic control loop is something like this: while True: ... see what's running, and possibly what document ... time.sleep(1.0) When I fire this up, it creates a Python rocket icon in the dock. Not great, but I can live with it. But it also prevents logout and shutdown from working -- I keep getting the message "Logout has timed out because the application Python has failed to quit". Does anyone know what I've got to do to this script to keep it from preventing logout? For bonus points, what do I have to do to keep it from putting the rocket in the dock? Bill

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