Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] what's the plural of "Emacs"?

2005-06-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
Bob> I've heard that some people are happy with the Carbonized GNU Emacs Bob> (I think it can be compiled from CVS, but there are various Bob> binaries available), and Kevin Walzer is working on an AquaMacs Bob> distribution, Bob

[Pythonmac-SIG] Aquamacs

2005-06-15 Thread Kevin Walzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles, There are indeed various versions of Emacs out there for OS X. You can't tell the players without a scorecard. Here's the rundown, based on what's available at http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/ and elsewhere: Carbon Ema

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Newbie....(for now)

2005-06-15 Thread Kent Quirk
The easiest way to know if you have a package is to try to import it. Don't forget that Python has a command-line interpreter. Just run it and type "import SciPy" and see if it works! If you want to learn idiomatic Python one of the best places to go is the Python Cookbook. I'd recommend buying th

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] what's the plural of "Emacs"?

2005-06-15 Thread Charles Hartman
I was wondering about the ones in http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ I see "Carbon Emacs", "Emacs on Aqua 8.0-rc3", "AquaMacs 0.9.1" . . . Charles Hartman On Jun 15, 2005, at 6:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Apple only offers one emacs, the one that ships with Mac OS X, unless >> > > Wh

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] what's the plural of

2005-06-15 Thread fghorow . 11707581
--- Charles Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to reintroduce myself to Emacs, so I went looking for "the > Mac version". There seem to be at least two, maybe more, even just > from Apple. Can anyone give me the thumbnail version of why I should > get one or another? > > Charles Hart

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] what's the plural of "Emacs"?

2005-06-15 Thread eichin
> Apple only offers one emacs, the one that ships with Mac OS X, unless Which was great until tiger - the tiger version has painful curses-related bugs, and since it only works inside a terminal (xterm, Terminal.app) this is a problem. > Emacsen? Yes. Debian uses the term specifically, in the

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] what's the plural of "Emacs"?

2005-06-15 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jun 15, 2005, at 5:38 PM, Charles Hartman wrote: > I'd like to reintroduce myself to Emacs, so I went looking for "the > Mac version". There seem to be at least two, maybe more, even just > from Apple. Can anyone give me the thumbnail version of why I should > get one or another? Emacsen? Ap

[Pythonmac-SIG] what's the plural of "Emacs"?

2005-06-15 Thread Charles Hartman
I'd like to reintroduce myself to Emacs, so I went looking for "the Mac version". There seem to be at least two, maybe more, even just from Apple. Can anyone give me the thumbnail version of why I should get one or another? Charles Hartman ___ Pyt

[Pythonmac-SIG] Newbie....(for now)

2005-06-15 Thread Robert Herbstzuber
Hello to all I've been writing PHP web apps for about 3 years now and I took one JAVA course over that time. I'm looking to get into "real" programming and I've chosen Python as my intro to it. I"ve installed the framework build of 2.4.1 on my Tiger install and i've tried to read a lot of

[Pythonmac-SIG] macspeech for MacOSX

2005-06-15 Thread Noboru Yamamoto
Hi, Attached file, macspeechX.py, is a replacement for macspeech module which used to be included in the Mac-Python distribution. As name indicates, it works with MacOSX and has similar, if not same, interfaces found in the old macspeech module. It requires ctypes module newer than 0.9.6 and

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Tricky question?

2005-06-15 Thread Schollnick, Benjamin
> > If you want it more automated, System Profiler is scriptable, so > > one of > > the Python AppleScript interfaces could be used. > > I highly recommend that you forget that it has a scriptable > interface, and just use the command-line app as I had > suggested in my > previous message..

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] PyObjC

2005-06-15 Thread Michael Hudson
Jan Erik Moström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-06-15 10:35: > >>Use PyObjC. This is such an easy question! :) > > I kind of expected that answer ;-) > >>> This might seem like a really stupid question but since I don't >>> haven't used Cocoa/Objective-C or

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] PyObjC

2005-06-15 Thread Jan Erik Moström
Michael Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-06-15 10:35: >Use PyObjC. This is such an easy question! :) I kind of expected that answer ;-) >> This might seem like a really stupid question but since I don't >> haven't used Cocoa/Objective-C or PyObCj/Python I would like to ask >> a question: if I de

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] PyObjC

2005-06-15 Thread Michael Hudson
Jan Erik Moström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm currently looking around for what tools I should use for writing Mac > applications with GUIs. I've previously done this using either Java (no fun > and Swing based programs doesn't look good) or REALbasic, but would like to > use something else.

[Pythonmac-SIG] PyObjC

2005-06-15 Thread Jan Erik Moström
I'm currently looking around for what tools I should use for writing Mac applications with GUIs. I've previously done this using either Java (no fun and Swing based programs doesn't look good) or REALbasic, but would like to use something else. I've looked at Cocoa and Objective-C (haven't done an