Re: [Python-Dev] Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] zipfile still has 2GB boundary bug

2005-04-26 Thread Guido van Rossum
> > Please don't propose a grand rewrite (even it's only a single module). > > Given that the API is mostly sensible, please propose gradual > > refactoring of the implementation, perhaps some new API methods, and > > so on. Don't throw away the work that went into making it work in the > > first p

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] zipfile still has 2GB boundary bug

2005-04-26 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Apr 26, 2005, at 8:24 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: Someone should think about rewriting the zipfile module to be less hideous, include a repair feature, and be up to date with the latest specifications . -- and allow *deleting* a file from a zipfi

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] zipfile still has 2GB boundary bug

2005-04-26 Thread Guido van Rossum
> > Someone should think about rewriting the zipfile module to be less > > hideous, include a repair feature, and be up to date with the latest > > specifications . > > -- and allow *deleting* a file from a zipfile. As far as I can tell, > you now

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] EPS to JPEG with PIL

2005-04-26 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Apr 26, 2005, at 3:55 PM, Bill MacKenzie wrote: I need to convert EPS files to JPEG files. So far, all I get is failure notices. The first question is will PIL do this trick? Not without Ghostscript installed. You might want to look to the CoreGraphics wrapper that comes with Apple's distrib

[Pythonmac-SIG] EPS to JPEG with PIL

2005-04-26 Thread Bill MacKenzie
I need to convert EPS files to JPEG files. So far, all I get is failure notices. The first question is will PIL do this trick? And the second is, OK what am I doing wrong? I've installed PIL-1.1.5-py2.3-macosx10.3 on my IMac running OS 10.3.7 and Python 2.3 (#1, Sep 13 2003, 00:49:11). I adapte

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Building packages

2005-04-26 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Apr 26, 2005, at 5:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have both Apple's Python 2.3 and MacPython 2.4.1 installed on my machine, both with some add-on packages from pythonmac.org. I had noticed when installing them that the packages for Python 2.3 and Python 2.4 have identical names, meaning th

[Pythonmac-SIG] Building packages

2005-04-26 Thread konrad . hinsen
I have both Apple's Python 2.3 and MacPython 2.4.1 installed on my machine, both with some add-on packages from pythonmac.org. I had noticed when installing them that the packages for Python 2.3 and Python 2.4 have identical names, meaning that the second one to be installed is treated as an "u