Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Python access to RS-232, USB, MIDI?

2005-01-13 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jan 13, 2005, at 21:10, Lance Boyle wrote: I'm brainstorming on a project that involves communicating with a head tracker (I need only azimuth). I haven't decided on an actual head tracker, but am looking at a Polhemus. (Comments on head trackers are also welcomed--gaming devices or 3D mice?)

[Pythonmac-SIG] Python access to RS-232, USB, MIDI?

2005-01-13 Thread Lance Boyle
I'm brainstorming on a project that involves communicating with a head tracker (I need only azimuth). I haven't decided on an actual head tracker, but am looking at a Polhemus. (Comments on head trackers are also welcomed--gaming devices or 3D mice?) It looks like that I might need to communica

[Pythonmac-SIG] ANN: PyOXIDE 0.7.1 - Cocoa based Python IDE

2005-01-13 Thread Glenn Andreas
PyOXIDE 0.7.1 is now available for abuse. It now allows for creating PyObjC applications from a project (it still uses bundlebuilder - support for py2app is forthcoming). This includes setting destinations within the bundle for project components, as well as an InfoPList editor and even suppor

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Appscript Binary Installer Feedback

2005-01-13 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jan 13, 2005, at 17:23, has wrote: Bob wrote: [AppscriptTerminologyServer & RenderTerminology] So then they shouldn't be in site-packages, because they should be accessible to the user. Either /Developer/Somewhere or /Applications/Somewhere. I use /Developer/Applications/Python Tools/packag

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Appscript Binary Installer Feedback

2005-01-13 Thread has
Bob wrote: [AppscriptTerminologyServer & RenderTerminology] So then they shouldn't be in site-packages, because they should be accessible to the user. Either /Developer/Somewhere or /Applications/Somewhere. I use /Developer/Applications/Python Tools/packagename/ when I build packages (similar

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Testers needed again: Fix installer 1.2

2005-01-13 Thread Jack Jansen
On 11-jan-05, at 11:09, Michael Twomey wrote: Hi, I just tried out the installer and it works fine, but it appears to have littered my disk with CVS directories, was that intentional? (I'm guessing not) Good catch! I've created a new installer that doesn't have this problem. -- Jack Jansen, <[EMAIL

[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Appscript Binary Installer Feedback

2005-01-13 Thread has
Nick wrote: These apps are faceless background apps that help speed appscript but are not required for it to run properly. AppscriptTerminologyServer is a scriptable FBA that enhances appscript's performance and remote scripting support. RenderTerminology is a convenient drag-n-drop end-user app

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Folder Actions in Python?

2005-01-13 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jan 13, 2005, at 15:03, Wolfgang Keller wrote: Is there a way to write "folder actions" for MacOS X in Python? I would guess to enable this the corresponding script would at least have to be applescript-able itself...? You'd need to write an applescript that spawns a Python process (or talks to

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Appscript Binary Installer Feedback

2005-01-13 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jan 13, 2005, at 15:43, has wrote: Nick wrote: These apps are faceless background apps that help speed appscript but are not required for it to run properly. AppscriptTerminologyServer is a scriptable FBA that enhances appscript's performance and remote scripting support. RenderTerminology is

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] self-instantiating instances in pyhton

2005-01-13 Thread Rayme Jernigan
You guess right... this is the type of approach I was looking for. Thanks!! On Jan 12, 2005, at 7:14 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: On Jan 12, 2005, at 12:52, Rayme Jernigan wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a language to abuse for a project I'm working on. I know a little Python, but I do not know if it can

[Pythonmac-SIG] Folder Actions in Python?

2005-01-13 Thread Wolfgang Keller
Hello, this may potentially be a dumb FAQ, but: Is there a way to write "folder actions" for MacOS X in Python? I would guess to enable this the corresponding script would at least have to be applescript-able itself...? Related question: I read somewhere that FreeBSD has a similar notification m

[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Appscript Binary Installer Feedback

2005-01-13 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jan 13, 2005, at 12:54, Nick Matsakis wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Bob Ippolito wrote: Even more reason to have them installed behind the scenes. Where should they be installed, then? I think the appscript folder in /Library/Python/2.3 is the best place for them. What I meant by "behind the scen

[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Appscript Binary Installer Feedback

2005-01-13 Thread Nick Matsakis
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Bob Ippolito wrote: > Even more reason to have them installed behind the scenes. Where should they be installed, then? I think the appscript folder in /Library/Python/2.3 is the best place for them. Nick ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillis

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Appscript Binary Installer Feedback

2005-01-13 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jan 13, 2005, at 12:00, Nick Matsakis wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Bob Ippolito wrote: Click-through is pretty standard with an installer package, I'd go ahead and do it. Why? Does it indemnify anyone if someone uses appscript to run a nuclear sub? No one reads that stuff anyway. I'll usually gl

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Appscript Binary Installer Feedback

2005-01-13 Thread Nick Matsakis
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Bob Ippolito wrote: > Click-through is pretty standard with an installer package, I'd go > ahead and do it. Why? Does it indemnify anyone if someone uses appscript to run a nuclear sub? No one reads that stuff anyway. > I would install them automatically. If they are on th

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Appscript Binary Installer Feedback

2005-01-13 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jan 13, 2005, at 11:46, Nick Matsakis wrote: Greetings. I'm putting together a binary installer for Appscript and friends --- instead of installing seven different components, it will be able to be done in a single install without any dependencies on the developers tools being installed. The

[Pythonmac-SIG] Appscript Binary Installer Feedback

2005-01-13 Thread Nick Matsakis
Greetings. I'm putting together a binary installer for Appscript and friends --- instead of installing seven different components, it will be able to be done in a single install without any dependencies on the developers tools being installed. The components being installed include: appscript, a

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] self-instantiating instances in pyhton

2005-01-13 Thread Rayme Jernigan
Hi Piet, Thanks to you, and everyone for your thoughts on this. By "external controller code" I mean code that would instantiate, keep track of and manipulate these objects. So the second part of the problem is transfer of control to the new node object. Put another way, in the purest implementa

[Pythonmac-SIG] RegEx oops

2005-01-13 Thread Charles Hartman
Sorry, that was a dumb question. I forgot about for i in range(len(str) - 3): fnd = pattern.search(str, i) if fnd (Why do I think of these things one [1] minute after posting a question in desperation? Law of nature?) Charles Hartman __

[Pythonmac-SIG] RegEx 101 (or 102?)

2005-01-13 Thread Charles Hartman
Not quite Python, not quite Mac -- but I'm stalled on something about REs that I ought to know but can't seem to find. I want to search a string like '/xx/x/x/xx' for the *longest* match of 'x[x/]' -- that is, the longest sequence of pairs whose first member is 'x' and whose second member is ei

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] self-instantiating instances in pyhton

2005-01-13 Thread Piet van Oostrum
> Rayme Jernigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (RJ) wrote: RJ> Hi, RJ> I'm looking for a language to abuse for a project I'm working on. I know a RJ> little Python, but I do not know if it can do this: I'd like to define some RJ> class "N" that instantiates objects that can instantiate fresh new objects