Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Why do I need PantherPythonFix?

2005-02-21 Thread Roger Binns
They are NOT AT ALL designed to be able to facilitate writing software that links against a previous version. With BitPim on Windows and Linux, the Python interpretter is distributed as part of the binary package. There is absolutely no dependencies on what the user's system has, except base C a

[Pythonmac-SIG] magic file info

2005-02-21 Thread Henning.Ramm
I'm looking for a way to retrieve a file's type - not (only) Mac type/creator, but like what the shell command 'file' returns. Best regards, Henning Hraban Ramm Südkurier Medienhaus / MediaPro Support/Admin/Development Dept. ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Why do I need PantherPythonFix?

2005-02-21 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Feb 21, 2005, at 4:16 AM, Roger Binns wrote: They are NOT AT ALL designed to be able to facilitate writing software that links against a previous version. With BitPim on Windows and Linux, the Python interpretter is distributed as part of the binary package. There is absolutely no dependenci

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] magic file info

2005-02-21 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Feb 21, 2005, at 4:29 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm looking for a way to retrieve a file's type - not (only) Mac type/creator, but like what the shell command 'file' returns. /usr/bin/magic determines the file type heuristically by parsing /usr/share/file/magic and then reading a couple b

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Why do I need PantherPythonFix?

2005-02-21 Thread Roger Binns
Did you read and understand the versioned frameworks blog entry I linked to? What you're saying has basically no relevance to what I said. I read it all. I see the layout. The section about Mach-O, MH_DYLIB and dyld tie directly in to what I was asking about ELF, LD_LIBRARY_PATH and rpath whic

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Why do I need PantherPythonFix?

2005-02-21 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Feb 21, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Roger Binns wrote: Did you read and understand the versioned frameworks blog entry I linked to? What you're saying has basically no relevance to what I said. I read it all. I see the layout. The section about Mach-O, MH_DYLIB and dyld tie directly in to what I was

[Pythonmac-SIG] cross-platform puzzle

2005-02-21 Thread Charles Hartman
This may be the wrong list for this question. Send me away if so, but I thought I'd try here first. I'm building Mac and Windows versions of an application with a dictionary as one main data structure. A dialog box lets the user type a string which is then used to change the value associated wi

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] cross-platform puzzle

2005-02-21 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Feb 21, 2005, at 7:49 PM, Charles Hartman wrote: This may be the wrong list for this question. Send me away if so, but I thought I'd try here first. I'm building Mac and Windows versions of an application with a dictionary as one main data structure. A dialog box lets the user type a string

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] cross-platform puzzle

2005-02-21 Thread Charles Hartman
Sorry, I'll try to be more specific. I'm using wxPython 2.5.3.1, developing under Mac 10.3 with the factory-issue Framework Python 2.3. I'm trying to run also under Win XP (when I get time on a Windows machine every other day). I'm using the WingIDE on both platforms. The app contains a diction

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] cross-platform puzzle

2005-02-21 Thread Kevin Ollivier
Hi Charles, On Feb 21, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Charles Hartman wrote: This may be the wrong list for this question. Send me away if so, but I thought I'd try here first. I'm building Mac and Windows versions of an application with a dictionary as one main data structure. A dialog box lets the user typ

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] cross-platform puzzle

2005-02-21 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Feb 21, 2005, at 8:58 PM, Charles Hartman wrote: On Feb 21, 2005, at 8:03 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: On Feb 21, 2005, at 7:49 PM, Charles Hartman wrote: This may be the wrong list for this question. Send me away if so, but I thought I'd try here first. I'm building Mac and Windows versions of an

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] cross-platform puzzle

2005-02-21 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Feb 21, 2005, at 9:12 PM, Kevin Ollivier wrote: On Feb 21, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Charles Hartman wrote: This may be the wrong list for this question. Send me away if so, but I thought I'd try here first. I'm building Mac and Windows versions of an application with a dictionary as one main data st

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] cross-platform puzzle

2005-02-21 Thread Charles Hartman
On Feb 21, 2005, at 9:15 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: Note that strings are immutable in Python, and if "Dict" has strings for values then the copy-by-slice is extraneous. There's no reason to make a copy of an object that can't possibly be changed. I'm pretty sure that slicing a string like that i

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] cross-platform puzzle

2005-02-21 Thread Charles Hartman
On Feb 21, 2005, at 9:17 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: On Feb 21, 2005, at 9:12 PM, Kevin Ollivier wrote: On Feb 21, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Charles Hartman wrote: This may be the wrong list for this question. Send me away if so, but I thought I'd try here first. I'm building Mac and Windows versions of an a

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] cross-platform puzzle

2005-02-21 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Feb 21, 2005, at 10:29 PM, Charles Hartman wrote: On Feb 21, 2005, at 9:15 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: Note that strings are immutable in Python, and if "Dict" has strings for values then the copy-by-slice is extraneous. There's no reason to make a copy of an object that can't possibly be changed

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Versions, Frameworks, Linking, PantherPythonFix

2005-02-21 Thread Roger Binns
[BTW I apologise for not updating the subject. My questions are in the bigger picture context of Python on Mac, not the need for PantherPythonFix] You quoted something about link-time linker support for frameworks and then talk about runtime linker support.. On other platforms they are related.

[Pythonmac-SIG] Qualcomm Purevoice codec

2005-02-21 Thread Roger Binns
Can anyone give me hints on how to access the Qualcomm Purevoice codec that is part of Quicktime from Python? In BitPim we convert between wav and Purevoice using the convertor that Qualcomm provides: http://www.cdmatech.com/solutions/products/purevoice_download.jsp Note that they don't supply it