Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Active Directory authentication on Mac using Python

2005-08-15 Thread eichin
> I thought one of the key concepts of Kerberos was that the password > is only ever sent to the authentication server by a client, and that Horrors no. This is one of the common misconceptions about Kerberos. The password is *never sent anywhere*. Not to application servers, and not to the au

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Active Directory authentication on Mac using Python

2005-08-14 Thread eichin
I suspect the original mention of LDAP was a bit of a distraction - that's only useful for authORIZATION (ie. getting lists of groups and acls that a user has and *deciding* what they can do, once you know who they are - it's the knowing who they are part that is authENTICATION, which is done with

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] Python Metadata Importer

2005-05-26 Thread eichin
at: # $Id: FooBarBaz.py,v 1.12 2005/03/15 20:44:09 eichin Exp $ # $Id: FooBarBaz.py 24324 2005-05-13 21:10:53Z eichin $ As long as you're moderately generous in the pattern match, it's likely to work with both (the cvs version can contain multiple dots, as well.) _

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Simple Statusitem example

2005-04-13 Thread eichin
> Are there any examples people would like to see? What would actually > be *useful* to show in the status bar? ITunes and clocks have been Assuming I'm not confused and the "status bar" is the same as the "right side of the menu bar", http://menu.jeweledplatypus.org/ has a long list of example

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Re: ANN: MacEnthon 0.1

2005-04-12 Thread eichin
> Actually, I was wondering how safe it would be to install MacEnthon > if I already had a significant number of these packages installed? You could probably hack the uninstall script to just scan for what's already there, and run it before installing MacEnthon, so you know what it is going to ov

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] ANN: AquaMacs distribution of Emacs

2005-04-11 Thread eichin
> This looked promising, so I tested it - for about five minutes. This > beast is less ergonomic than standard Emacs and less ergonomic than It does look like it is an attempt at "emacs for mac users" which is very different than "mac-emacs for emacs users". Your review makes it very clear why I

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Mac User Python Newbies

2005-02-13 Thread eichin
> software to do useful stuff, and every second they're having to sit > and learn some tedious crap before they can do that is a second > they're being kept from achieving that goal. On the other hand, I recently did a quick in-office tutorial of "order some pizza, throw one of our legacy perl sc

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Apple installed vs. Manual

2005-02-09 Thread eichin
> what is currently Essential Reading on Python, I mean in print rather > Of course, "it depends". Dive into Python looks pretty good. Python I've been beating on people with, err, recommending Dive Into Python, for two reasons - you can read it online to see if it suits you, *and* it's *very*

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] algorithm wanted

2005-02-01 Thread eichin
It's certainly one of the things map+lambda are for >>> "".join(map(lambda x,y: {True:x, False:"0"}[y], _cmykMap, [True, False, >>> True, True])) 'C0YK' but I'd break that down into a selector function (rather than a lambda) or something to make it readable, since it's way too far on the lisp si

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Trouble getting TK to work

2005-01-29 Thread eichin
> File "/sw/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 3, in ? /sw means you're getting something out of Fink, which may be your problem -- the fink install hacks a path set into your account's dotfiles somewhere, so you may only *think* you're getting the one that comes with osx... Note the differen