Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] appscript CommandError timeout - always before 2**16 transactions, sometimes well before

2009-11-18 Thread Gary Poster
Hey Ken. :-) It hung for me. Gary got a CommandError at count 57474 Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "", line 21, in first_timeout File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/appscript/reference.py", line 504, in __call__ appscript.reference.CommandError: Comma

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] non-framework Python 2.5.2 has empty lib-dynload

2008-04-24 Thread Gary Poster
On Apr 24, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: On 24 Apr, 2008, at 14:40, Gary Poster wrote: Hi. I'm assuming this is a python-on-mac oddity, but maybe I'm wrong. There's probably something wrong with your environment, although I don't know what that could b

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] non-framework Python 2.5.2 has empty lib-dynload

2008-04-24 Thread Gary Poster
8:40 AM, Gary Poster wrote: Hi. I'm assuming this is a python-on-mac oddity, but maybe I'm wrong. I wanted a local non-framework build of Python 2.5.2. I did the following in a Python 2.5.2 source download: ./configure --prefix=/Users/gary/opt/py25 LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib OPT=-I

[Pythonmac-SIG] non-framework Python 2.5.2 has empty lib-dynload

2008-04-24 Thread Gary Poster
Hi. I'm assuming this is a python-on-mac oddity, but maybe I'm wrong. I wanted a local non-framework build of Python 2.5.2. I did the following in a Python 2.5.2 source download: ./configure --prefix=/Users/gary/opt/py25 LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib OPT=-I/opt/local/include make make install

[Pythonmac-SIG] HOWTO build local 2.4 on Leopard (was Re: newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger)

2008-01-07 Thread Gary Poster
On Jan 3, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Tobias Rodäbel wrote: > BTW, we had a very inspiring discussion on the zope3-dev > list last summer regarding system python for *development*. Most > people there prefer a separate python tree for each (zope) project. > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] ctypes and OS X CF types?

2007-10-23 Thread Gary Poster
On Oct 23, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: >> However, it seems that I'll have to unearth and write >> ctypes definitions for a number of Core Foundation C++ types, in >> order >> to do that. Has anyone already done this? Created ctypes >> definitions >> for the standard CF types, and

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Does anyone on the planet know how to build python-2.5 (WITH READLINE)?

2006-11-30 Thread Gary Poster
On Nov 15, 2006, at 2:32 PM, Todd Thal wrote: > I am having one "hades" of a heckuva time getting readline support for > Python-2.5 on a Mac OS 10.4.8.8.0 Thanks to Ronald and Skip for replying to this thread. It took me a little bit to connect the dots from their replies, so I thought I'd

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] readline support in ActivePython 2.4.2?

2005-11-30 Thread Gary Poster
On Nov 29, 2005, at 12:41 PM, Trent Mick wrote: > You could either build the readline module to any Python 2.4 and plop > that in. Dropping in the readline.so from the Mac Python build should > work to. Thanks for the hint, Trent! I guess I should have done that already. :-) More precisely,

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Zope.Interface won't build on 10.4

2005-07-13 Thread Gary Poster
On Jul 13, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > On Jul 13, 2005, at 4:00 AM, Gary Poster wrote: > > >> >> On Jul 13, 2005, at 9:55 AM, Kevin Dangoor wrote: >> >> >> >>> I encountered this as well. I *think* something needs to change

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Zope.Interface won't build on 10.4

2005-07-13 Thread Gary Poster
On Jul 13, 2005, at 9:55 AM, Kevin Dangoor wrote: > I encountered this as well. I *think* something needs to change within > zope.interface to work with gcc 4.x. Anyhow, all you need to do is: > > sudo gcc_select 3.3 > > Kevin And FWIW I (and others here at Zope Corp) build it just fine on gcc 4

[Pythonmac-SIG] Fredericksburg, VA ZPUG Meeting July 13: PyObjC presentation

2005-07-07 Thread Gary Poster
n Prince Edward Street. Topics: As desired (and offered) by participants, within the constraints of having to do with Python. Contact: Gary Poster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Second meeting information -- When: July 13, 7:30. Speaker: Zac Bir, Zope Corporation Senior So

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Discussion of Python IDE's: strengths and weaknesses (long)

2005-07-06 Thread Gary Poster
On Jul 6, 2005, at 5:27 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote: > I plan to try > Komodo when it arrives, but if it's written using Tcl/Tk then I worry > that it won't be great on the Mac. Aqua Tcl/Tk has many cosmetic bugs > that don't show any sign of getting fixed. On the other platforms Komodo supports,

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Tiger hand rolled Python 2.4.1: libxml2 oddities

2005-05-05 Thread Gary Poster
On May 5, 2005, at 2:31 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > On May 5, 2005, at 2:20 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: >> It sounds like libxml2 (or the Python extension) uses the linker >> option flat_namespace .. that's bad. -flat_namespace has been >> deprecated since 10.2 (maybe earlier) and shouldn't be used

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] building non-Framework Python 2.4.1 on Tiger

2005-05-05 Thread Gary Poster
On May 4, 2005, at 7:30 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > On May 4, 2005, at 7:15 PM, Gary Poster wrote: >> On May 4, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: >>> I'm not really sure why you're trying not to build a framework >>> Python in the first place, there's

[Pythonmac-SIG] Tiger hand rolled Python 2.4.1: libxml2 oddities

2005-05-05 Thread Gary Poster
Using Python 2.4.1 compiled on Tiger. This symptom did not occur on Panther. Running my app using one command makes an import of libxml2 succeed: all test pass, including a lot of code that relies on libxml2. Running it with another command makes it fail: *** ImportError: Failure linking ne

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] building non-Framework Python 2.4.1 on Tiger

2005-05-04 Thread Gary Poster
On May 4, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: ... > % cc --version > powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.0 (GCC) 4.0.0 20041026 (Apple > Computer, Inc. build 4061) ... If I were a more experienced Mac user, I'd probably blush: the problem was that I had assumed my Tiger upgrade would also autom

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] building non-Framework Python 2.4.1 on Tiger

2005-05-04 Thread Gary Poster
On May 4, 2005, at 2:15 PM, Gary Poster wrote: > On May 4, 2005, at 12:19 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: >> Building Python 2.4.1 *on* Tiger has no issues, because I fixed >> that before Python 2.4.1 was released. >> >> Python 2.4.1 built on Panther, and moved over to Tiger,

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] building non-Framework Python 2.4.1 on Tiger

2005-05-04 Thread Gary Poster
On May 4, 2005, at 12:19 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > On May 4, 2005, at 11:15 AM, Gary Poster wrote: > > >> Hi. I found Bob Ippolito's TigerPython24Fix but that's only for a >> framework Python 2.4.1--I need to build a non-Framework Python 2.4.1 >> from

[Pythonmac-SIG] building non-Framework Python 2.4.1 on Tiger

2005-05-04 Thread Gary Poster
Hi. I found Bob Ippolito's TigerPython24Fix but that's only for a framework Python 2.4.1--I need to build a non-Framework Python 2.4.1 from source. I guess if I were zen-ful about Mac packages I'd be able to figure out the necessary changes from the download...but I'm not. Could anyone h