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Making a Python application scriptable via AppleScript
by Kevin Walzer Aug. 8, 2009

Aug. 8, 2009

What options currently exist for making a Python application on the Mac scriptable via AppleScript, i.e. allowing it to respond to Apple events and making Python data objects and functions accessible from AppleScript? I'm aware of AppScript, but as I understand it, this module is designed more to allow Python apps to drive *other* AppleScriptable apps via the OSA. I'm interested in the opposite. I understand that there used to be some modules to support this, but they appear to be deprecated. Any advice is apprecaited. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com

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aligning proportional text
by Charles Hartman Aug. 8, 2009

Aug. 8, 2009

This may not be the right list, but I think the question may be at least partly Mac-specific. I have lines of text in a proportional font. Within each line I have the index of a certain character. I want to adjust each line horizontally so those indexed characters are vertically aligned. Since I obviously can't just count characters as with a monospaced font, how do I go about translating from character index in the line to pixels? Any hint much appreciated. (Any nudge toward pre-existing libraries or functions, even more!) This is all within wxPython, if that matters; I don't see anything in the wx.StyledTextControl documentation that looks helpful, and I imagine I need something lower- level. Charles Hartman

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MacPython Leopard help needed
by Tibor Fekete Aug. 7, 2009

Aug. 7, 2009

Hi there, under http://wiki.python.org/moin/MacPython/Leopard there is a walkthrough how one should install a mac native idle for python. The creation of the softlink (sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/ Python.framework) fails since the current directory already has a Python.framework dir with some juice in it instead of /System/Library/Frameworks so the above command returns an error: $ cd /Library/Frameworks $ sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/ Python.framework ln: Python.framework/: File exists $ ls -al Python.framework/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 Júl 16 2006 . drwxrwxrwx 14 root admin 476 Júl 7 16:49 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 Júl 16 2006 Versions Should I create the softlink vice versa? Thanks for your help in advance. Best, Feka

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Success: PyObjC, PyCurl, and Tiger
by Aahz Aug. 6, 2009

Aug. 6, 2009

Posting this so that other people can Google it: I have an app that needs to run on both 10.5 (Leopard) and 10.4 (Tiger). We've been building it with PyObjC 1.4 and PyCurl 7.19.x, and I've been trying to upgrade it to PyObjC 2.2 to simplify our builds because we have a second app that needs FSEvents (and therefore PyObjC 2.2). After a lot of poking around, I finally figured out that Tiger needs PyCurl 7.13.1 per /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/include/curl/curlver.h That gets my app mostly working on Tiger, but I needed to downgrade to PyObjC 1.4 because 2.2 isn't clean on Tiger yet. -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "...string iteration isn't about treating strings as sequences of strings, it's about treating strings as sequences of characters. The fact that characters are also strings is the reason we have problems, but characters are strings for other good reasons." --Aahz

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OS X port of bbfreeze
by Ralf Schmitt Aug. 6, 2009

Aug. 6, 2009

Hi all, I'm the author of bbfreeze, which is a tool similar to py2app/py2exe. It currently supports linux and windows. I've started doing a port to OS X last year, but didn't finish it. Now I'm seeking for volunteers, who might be interested in finishing it. bbfreeze uses py2app's modulegraph library and is able to handle egg files and the pkg_resources module. Regards, - Ralf PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bbfreeze/0.95.4 hg repo: http://systemexit.de/repo/bbfreeze

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py2app creating semi_standalone instead of standalone app
by Brendan Simon (eTRIX) Aug. 5, 2009

Aug. 5, 2009

I have a wxPython app which works on my Mac. I created an app bundle and this works on my Mac and my friends Mac :) All good, except that if I give my friend the source code and get him to create the app, the app is created as semi_standalone, and the app does not work as some modules cant be found. I am assuming the problems is is related to the semi_standalone versus standalone, but not 100% sure. Any idea why my friend's build is semi_standalone and mine is standalone ?? It's the same source. Any ideas on how to make standalone explicit with py2app ?? I see the --semi-standalone option in py2applet, but I don't think my friend should have to run pyapplet, right ??? Setup is already created. Hmmm, maybe I have explicitly specify standalone in setup.py somewhere ??? Thanks, Brendan.

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Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Pythonmac-SIG Digest, Vol 76, Issue 4
by Brendan Simon (eTRIX) Aug. 5, 2009

Aug. 5, 2009

> Subject: > Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] py2app creating semi_standalone instead of > standalone app > From: > Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban(a)fiee.net> > Date: > Wed, 5 Aug 2009 09:37:51 +0200 > To: > pythonmac-sig(a)python.org > > To: > pythonmac-sig(a)python.org > > > Am 2009-08-05 um 04:35 schrieb Brendan Simon (eTRIX): > >> Maybe it has something to do with this statement in the py2app website. >> >> If the --semi-standalone option is used (forced if a vendor Python >> is being used), then the not_stdlib_filter will be automatically >> added to ensure that the Python standard library is not included. >> >> >> My python is 2.5.4 from Python.org. My freind's python is python 2.5.1 >> (standard on Leopard from Apple). >> I presume my friends python is "a vendor Python" and thus >> semi-standalone is being forced. > > exactly > >> Still not sure what the correct fix is :( > > If you want to create a standalone app, you must install a standard > python (and the necessary modules), as you can't distribute Apple's. Really ?!? I think you may be serious !!! If it's true it is close to unbelievable. Isn't python "free" as a general rule ??? This is a stinky thing that MS would do !!! The "copyright" statement doesn't mention anything about Apple. Nor if i type "license()" k9m:src brendan$ /usr/bin/python Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Feb 6 2009, 19:02:12) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> copyright Copyright (c) 2001-2007 Python Software Foundation. All Rights Reserved. Copyright (c) 2000 BeOpen.com. All Rights Reserved. Copyright (c) 1995-2001 Corporation for National Research Initiatives. All Rights Reserved. Copyright (c) 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam. All Rights Reserved. Anyway, I guess if it is true, then the easy work around is to install an updated python from python.org :) Cheers, Brendan.

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py2app vs PyObjCTools
by Aahz Aug. 3, 2009

Aug. 3, 2009

I'm using py2app 0.3.6 with PyObjC 2.2b2, and py2app is refusing to copy pyobjc_framework_Cocoa-2.2b2-py2.6-macosx-10.3-fat.egg/PyObjCTools/NibClassBuilder into site-packages.zip. The weird thing is that I *do* get PyObjCTools/__init__.pyo, but none of the other files in the package. I've tried setting both 'packages' and 'includes' in setup.py, but it's not working. Suggestions? -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "...string iteration isn't about treating strings as sequences of strings, it's about treating strings as sequences of characters. The fact that characters are also strings is the reason we have problems, but characters are strings for other good reasons." --Aahz

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create appscript reference from aedesc
by Magnus Herold Aug. 2, 2009

Aug. 2, 2009

Hi All, I'm trying to write an Automator action using Python, and I'm not yet that familiar with the lower levels of Mac programming. The input should be a list of iTunes track objects, and I get an NSAppleEventDescriptor object. I know how to extract the AEDescs from that, but I can't find a way turn these into appscript references that I can use normally to say e.g. track.name.set('blabla'). Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Magnus

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Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] create appscript reference from aedesc
by has Aug. 1, 2009

Aug. 1, 2009

Magnus Herold wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to write an Automator action using Python, and I'm not yet > that familiar with the lower levels of Mac programming. > > The input should be a list of iTunes track objects, and I get an > NSAppleEventDescriptor object. I know how to extract the AEDescs from > that, but I can't find a way turn these into appscript references that > I can use normally to say e.g. track.name.set('blabla'). It's possible, but a non-trivial problem if you aren't already familiar with the inner workings of both Apple events and appscript. I don't have time to work on it myself, but could provide a few pointers on where to start looking. How keen are you to get your hands dirty? has -- Control AppleScriptable applications from Python, Ruby and ObjC: http://appscript.sourceforge.net

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