[Pythonmac-SIG] Where to put data

2004-12-21 Thread Charles Hartman
e. In this case I don't want users fiddling with it apart from the app. What is the right way to do this? (What's the easy way?) Is there a simple method that will work for both Mac and Windows (and Linux)? Charles Hartman http://cherry.

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Where to put data

2004-12-21 Thread Charles Hartman
n for applications? Oh well. Charles Hartman "Creative paranoia means developing at least as thorough a We-system as a They-system." Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, p. 638. On Dec 21, 2004, at 3:32 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: On Dec 21, 2004, at 10:23 AM, Charles Hartman wrote: (I also posted thi

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Let's discuss MacPython distributions for january

2004-12-23 Thread Charles Hartman
.) 2. Bravo! Bravo! Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence http://cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar http://villex.blogspot.com On Dec 23, 2004, at 6:12 PM, Jack Jansen wrote: Fixing this for 2.4.1 and 2.3.5 themselves is rather easy (and sketched in the mail mentioned above). Fixing this i

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] The versioning question...

2004-12-27 Thread Charles Hartman
to be completely unsuccessful - at least without users there's nobody to upset but yourself. Oh well, maybe in Python 3000... ;) That's always been my solution (I learned it from my profession, that of a poet), and I should report that it works wonderfully. Charles Hartman Professor of E

[Pythonmac-SIG] Qt is

2004-12-28 Thread Charles Hartman
old. Charles Hartman http://cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar http://villex.blogspot.com ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Qt is

2004-12-28 Thread Charles Hartman
Hey, that's great -- thanks! RegexPlor looks like what I need. (I've got a regex puzzle that's made my head hurt for two days. [Not knowing what I'm doing might have *something* to do with it.]) Charles Hartman http://cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar http://villex.blogspot.com On D

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Kodos

2004-12-29 Thread Charles Hartman
Yes please! With Bob Ippolito's helpful pointer (the QPL is **not** easily evident on the Troll web site) I now have the free version of PyQt, though I haven't tested it yet. I'd love to see Kodos. On the SourceForge.net page? Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] BuildApplet in next distro of MacPython?

2004-12-29 Thread Charles Hartman
Please not PyOxide. I used it for a while, I like it -- but it doesn't work, and it hasn't been worked on or updated in months. The current PythonIDE is minimal and shabby, but it works just fine. Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence http://cherry.conncoll.edu/

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Kodos

2004-12-29 Thread Charles Hartman
Yes please! With Bob Ippolito's helpful pointer (the QPL is **not** easily evident on the Troll web site) I now have the free version of PyQt, though I haven't tested it yet. I'd love to see Kodos. On the SourceForge.net page? Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in

[Pythonmac-SIG] wxDocsViewer

2004-12-30 Thread Charles Hartman
ntly I did something to my system that busted it. The most recent thing I did was to load PyQt (and free Qt and SIP) -- could that have anything to do with it? Sorry to be so clueless about something presumably simple. Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence http://cherry.conncoll

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Bob Ippolito's synopsis of Python(s) on OS X

2005-01-08 Thread Charles Hartman
. The performance hit from X11 doesn't seem to be severe, and it plays well with Virtual Desktop Pro (which I'm also going to have to pay for because after five days I can't live without it). Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence http://cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar http:

[Pythonmac-SIG] RegEx 101 (or 102?)

2005-01-13 Thread Charles Hartman
7;s already found. The solutions that occur to me are pretty Rube Goldberg (run the search multiple times, cutting one character off the beginning of the string each time . . .) I know there's a better solution. Charles Hartman ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

[Pythonmac-SIG] RegEx oops

2005-01-13 Thread Charles Hartman
Sorry, that was a dumb question. I forgot about for i in range(len(str) - 3): fnd = pattern.search(str, i) if fnd (Why do I think of these things one [1] minute after posting a question in desperation? Law of nature?) Charles Hartman

[Pythonmac-SIG] a RegEx question

2005-01-18 Thread Charles Hartman
argument that becomes available then. It's just awkward. And I keep thinking I must be missing something about RE syntax that would let me do these searches in a single step, not a loop (or, often, two nested loops). Charles Hartman Prof

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] a RegEx question

2005-01-19 Thread Charles Hartman
On Jan 18, 2005, at 5:08 PM, Nicholas Riley wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 04:40:54PM -0500, Charles Hartman wrote: find 'abca' in string 'abcabca' Every *single* RE I can think of misses the second instance (beginning in position 3) in the first example, because it&#x

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] coding preference

2005-01-19 Thread Charles Hartman
intention of writing commercial software I guess I could as easily (that is, cheaply) use QT. (I do need my (academic) programs to run on both Mac and Windows.) Worth switching? Charles Hartman ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@pytho

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] coding preference

2005-01-23 Thread Charles Hartman
e question. I don't even *have* different platforms (I sneak onto a colleague's machine to see if my Windows builds work). Certainly this distinguishes what I write from commercial apps; but when you ask me to describe the result as "throwaway," I balk. Charles Hartman On

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] [OT] To upgrade Mac OSX or not?

2005-01-25 Thread Charles Hartman
e the next release. (This has happened to me in the past.) I really hate to say this, but in this respect backward compatibility in Windows seems to be much better. Am I missing something? Umm . . . Software Update? Charles Hartman http://cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar http://villex.blogspo

[Pythonmac-SIG] Did I bust py2app?

2005-01-30 Thread Charles Hartman
I haven't used it for a while. Now when I try to make an app of the thing I've been working on -- OR of a separate package (part of appscript)! -- I get "ObjectGraph not found." ObjectGraph.py(c) *is* in /Library/Python/2.3/py2app/altgraph. So what did I do

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Did I bust py2app?

2005-02-01 Thread Charles Hartman
cify it on the py2app command line (python setup.py py2app --resources mydatafile) -- but where do I put it in the setup.py file? (I want it to get included in a py2exe build, too.) You see the kind of tutorial I'm looking for? Any poin

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] modifying setup.py: py2exe -> py2app

2005-02-01 Thread Charles Hartman
e of us need a fill-in-the-gap tutorial. Any mercy welcome. Charles Hartman "The earth does not get fat." --Nguni proverb ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] modifying setup.py: py2exe -> py2app

2005-02-02 Thread Charles Hartman
fing one thing or another (an icon file, a data file) into one of these. So an app turns out to be a whole village. Fellow wanderer in benightedness, Charles Hartman ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

[Pythonmac-SIG] simple setup.py-for-Windows question

2005-02-03 Thread Charles Hartman
between the 'data_files' argument in a setup.py file (as ordained by distutils), and the 'resources' option to py2app? Charles Hartman ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Fink, DarwinPorts vs py2app

2005-02-08 Thread Charles Hartman
can hardly guess how good the above music sounds to the ears of the Terminal-ly challenged & similar Mac-hacking persons like myself. I write goofy linguistic-research apps, I don't do systems stuff. People like me love Python too. Charles Hartman ___

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] IDE for wxPython

2005-02-08 Thread Charles Hartman
If you try SPE, I'd be very interested to hear your results. It's beautiful, and very extensive. But I have not been able to make it work. (The same has been true for me with wxGlade. It may be my fault, or the fault of my system.) Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Resi

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

2005-02-09 Thread Charles Hartman
mething to *study*!) Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence http://cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar http://villex.blogspot.com ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Zope py2app, some progress

2005-02-09 Thread Charles Hartman
confused, or only somewhat? Charles Hartman On Feb 9, 2005, at 9:04 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: You should never, ever, ever, ever, ever write inside of a bundle anyway. You should make this runtime directory in /tmp, /Library/Application Support/, etc. In fact, I was thinking that I should c

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Mac User Python Newbies

2005-02-09 Thread Charles Hartman
problem, I have to keep saying. Charles Hartman ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Zope py2app, some progress

2005-02-09 Thread Charles Hartman
m into the executable" (I don't know how to do that; I have to give my app to Windows people, but actually (*knowing* anything about Windows . . .) or if you could explain "(bleh)" -- but maybe the one question answers the other.

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Zope py2app, some progress

2005-02-10 Thread Charles Hartman
s quite useful overviews of the cross-platform issues. Thank you. Charles Hartman On Feb 9, 2005, at 11:47 PM, Roger Binns wrote: I'm not sure whether to ask if you could explain "compile them into the executable" (I don't know how to do that; I have to give my app to Win

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Mac User Python Newbies

2005-02-13 Thread Charles Hartman
k in, isn't it likely to be a reasonable place for someone to work who knows more, too? Sorry, I'm rambling. Charles Hartman ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Mac User Python Newbies

2005-02-14 Thread Charles Hartman
quick and painless. The only annoyance is the almost-but-not-quite-the-same commands for STCs versus wx's TextCtrls. Charles Hartman On Feb 14, 2005, at 5:08 PM, Chris Barker wrote: Boa uses wxScintilla (AKA wxSTC) also. It is also only currently working with wxPython2.4.2, so not a good o

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Mac User Python Newbies

2005-02-14 Thread Charles Hartman
my stage -- beginner but not complete beginner -- and that without the IDE I'd get lost in the larger integrative steps. And those are the parts where a sort-of-beginner is most likely to need help for (I'm guessing) quite a while. Charles Hartman __

[Pythonmac-SIG] another query about IDE

2005-02-16 Thread Charles Hartman
In that long discussion, someone mentioned jEdit, so I went and looked it up. It looks very promising and robust. But am I right in thinking that the only path toward GUI apps that it would support would be Java (JPython) based? Rather than wx, and so on? Charles Hartman

[Pythonmac-SIG] cross-platform puzzle

2005-02-21 Thread Charles Hartman
I suppose that might turn out to be the crucial question. But either way, I'm very puzzled to find a cross-platform disparity in this area. What am I missing? Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence http://cherry.conncoll.edu/co

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] cross-platform puzzle

2005-02-21 Thread Charles Hartman
is why what I think is a very simple dictionary lookup should find the key on the Mac and not find it on Windows. In the debugger I can look at both values -- 'word' and an entry in self.SD.Dict -- and see the same string. Is that any clearer? I know I could easily have made a

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] cross-platform puzzle

2005-02-21 Thread Charles Hartman
an get at the Windows machine tomorrow I'll try to check this again. Charles Hartman ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

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 vers

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] cross-platform puzzle

2005-02-22 Thread Charles Hartman
I just make it word = selstring.lower().strip() Many thanks! It was driving me crazy, and you steered me right. Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence http://cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar http://villex.blogspot.com On Feb 21, 2005, at 9:15 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: On Feb 21, 2

[Pythonmac-SIG] presenting . . .

2005-02-23 Thread Charles Hartman
If anybody has a crying need for a program that scans iambic pentameters, see the site below (the Programs page). wxPython on Mac/Win. Ta-da, and all that. It mostly seems to work. Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence http://cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Getting stdin using TextWrangler or BBEdit, but not MacPython

2005-03-03 Thread Charles Hartman
(Tried to answer before but it didn't go through) It works fine in TextWrangler if you choose (from TW's Run submenu) Run in Terminal; you're still doing your work in TW, just using Terminal for i/o. Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence http://cherry.conncoll

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] More on stdin and python scripts in BBEdit and TextWrangler

2005-03-04 Thread Charles Hartman
only a little). But for me at least, it's a very nice debugging environment. TextWrangler is better as an editor for big tasks, but Wing's is quite OK, especially for the editing required while debugging. Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence http://cherr

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] More on stdin and python scripts in BBEdit and TextWrangler

2005-03-04 Thread Charles Hartman
No no, pythonw is simply part of OS X Python. Just change the command that your editor or whatever runs, probably from /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/pythonw. You need to do that for *any* GUI app. Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence http://cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar http

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] GUI design tools

2005-03-10 Thread Charles Hartman
ion. I use WingIDE for editing and debugging, but it doesn't include any graphic designer for wx. I wish something that did worked, or that I could get it to work. Several half-there solutions; but everything I've tried either isn't ready for OS X or isn't ready f

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] GUI design tools

2005-03-10 Thread Charles Hartman
It crashes for me all the time; I found it unusable at this stage. Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence http://cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar http://villex.blogspot.com On Mar 10, 2005, at 6:41 PM, Chris Barker wrote: Chris Barker wrote: I thought someone had built a wxGlade package

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] GUI design tools

2005-03-12 Thread Charles Hartman
ge for OS-X. (Yes, but I couldn't get it to wait to crash long enough to build a dialog box with it.) Charles Hartman ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] py2app on Tiger

2005-03-17 Thread Charles Hartman
it is. Charles Hartman ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] py2app on Tiger

2005-03-17 Thread Charles Hartman
10.x, but no more. I'm counting on the herd instinct, here. Charles Hartman On Mar 17, 2005, at 10:48 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote: On Mar 17, 2005, at 10:37, Charles Hartman wrote: On Mar 16, 2005, at 9:39 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: You *may* need to compile the Python framework and all of the extensio

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] ANN: py2app 0.1.8

2005-03-18 Thread Charles Hartman
On Mar 18, 2005, at 5:46 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: Actually, I'm not totally sure I trust the 10.3+ zip files for symlinks. Disk images are the popular solution. Some later version of py2app will probably have an option for creating a dmg out of your application. Yes please! Charles Ha

[Pythonmac-SIG] new Python & wxPython

2005-04-04 Thread Charles Hartman
what he or she was doing wouldn't have any trouble.) The two *seem* to be playing perfectly happily together. Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence http://cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar http://villex.blogspot.com ___ Pythonmac-SIG mailli

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] new Python & wxPython

2005-04-04 Thread Charles Hartman
4. I don't know how to do it in a way that allows for the variations (unicode or not, replacing an old installation or not . . . trust me, everybody will be happier if I don't undertake this. Charles Hartman On Apr 4, 2005, at 10:20 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: On Apr 4, 2005, at 10:12 PM, C

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Keymap file for WingIDE

2005-04-06 Thread Charles Hartman
uncommented the source-folding lines, and they work fine. Thanks for doing this. I hope you've told Wing Tech Support about it. (They're extraordinarily helpful.) Charles Hartman On Apr 6, 2005, at 5:21 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote: I have put up a basic keymap file for WingIDE that makes it loo

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Python documentation in PythonIDE--for Lee Cullens

2005-04-06 Thread Charles Hartman
download and install the Mac keymap that Russell Owen just posted here. It reduces the alien feel of X11 a fair amount. Charles Hartman On Apr 6, 2005, at 9:19 PM, Lee Cullens wrote: Just a followup. I thought since I was the one that complained _coupled_ with Bob's mention of not much he

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] A note on WingIDE

2005-04-07 Thread Charles Hartman
ded the two-platform license I need if I'm to distribute for Windows as well as Mac (which is to say, octupling my user base). Charles Hartman ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] ANN: MacPython 2.4.1 installer

2005-04-08 Thread Charles Hartman
at field, begin typing (it will help) the path to the Python you want. (For me, that's /usr/bin/pythonw for Python 2.3 and /user/local/bin/pythonw for Python 2.4.) Hope this helps. Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence *the Scandroid* is available at: http://cherry.conncol

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

2005-04-25 Thread Charles Hartman
7;t (except by rewriting everything but that to a new zipfile and renaming). Somewhere I saw a patch request for this, but it was languishing, a year or more old. Or am I just totally missing something? Charles Hartman ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Py

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] py2applet--is it really this easy?

2005-04-25 Thread Charles Hartman
using wxPython; the applet was big, like 14Mb as opposed to the 11Mb app that py2app makes, if that's a clue.) ? Charles Hartman On Apr 25, 2005, at 1:24 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: On Apr 25, 2005, at 1:06 PM, Chris Barker wrote: Bob Ippolito wrote: On Apr 24, 2005, at 12:20 AM, Kevin Walzer wrote:

[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app, wxPython, and unicode

2005-04-25 Thread Charles Hartman
doesn't display at all. Because of the difference between standalone and in-the-IDE, I can't figure out where the problem lies. Any clues very welcome. (I'm getting very sick of unicode.) Charles Hartman ___ Pythonmac-SIG mail

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Which Python are people going to use?

2005-04-28 Thread Charles Hartman
What, do without generator expressions?? I don't think so. Charles Hartman On Apr 28, 2005, at 12:03 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote: On Apr 27, 2005, at 11:59 PM, Dethe Elza wrote: I'm using 2.4.1 and will be generally be running the latest stable release. Using py2app makes it so convenie

[Pythonmac-SIG] message delays on list?

2005-04-28 Thread Charles Hartman
[incidental gripe] I don't understand why -- sometimes, not always -- it can take two hours or more for a message I send to show up on the list. Just server gaggage somewhere? Charles Hartman ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@pytho

[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app, unicode, etc

2005-04-28 Thread Charles Hartman
ingIDE debugger, I get default encoding is mac-roman If I run it from the command line, I get default encoding is mac-roman If I use py2app to build a standalone, I get default encoding is utf-8 How come? Charles Hartman ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist -

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Which Python are people going to use?

2005-04-28 Thread Charles Hartman
I don't know about that. If I'm building an Open Source app for Mac and Windows (py2app and py2exe standalones), using Python 2.4.1, is there a problem? Charles Hartman On Apr 28, 2005, at 10:04 PM, Roger Binns wrote: Whichever one ships with new Macs (presumably 2.3.5). Since I us

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] wxPython/Tiger?

2005-05-03 Thread Charles Hartman
On May 3, 2005, at 7:10 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: Upgrading wxPython on a Tiger box will be harder than  it was on Panther. Why?Not that I've tried yet; the first thing I tried when Tiger was through making itself at home was firing up Python (yup: 2.4.1) and importing wx (yup: 2.5.4.1). And that

[Pythonmac-SIG] jython alive

2005-05-05 Thread Charles Hartman
a special set of libraries in Java) would I be riding an endangered horse? Or do I need -- shudder -- to learn Java? Charles Hartman ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Clean Tiger install and Python 2.4.1

2005-05-10 Thread Charles Hartman
points to /usr/local/bin/pythonw, which is Python 2.4.1. Charles Hartman ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

[Pythonmac-SIG] wxversion disappeared?

2005-05-19 Thread Charles Hartman
1, and I'm not having much luck with that either.) Charles Hartman ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] wxversion disappeared?

2005-05-19 Thread Charles Hartman
On May 19, 2005, at 9:55 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > On 19-mei-2005, at 15:51, Charles Hartman wrote: >> >> (I also want the Tiger-distributed Python 2.3.5 to be able to call >> wxPython 2.6 rather than the seriously hobbled 2.5.3.1, and I'm not >> having much

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] wxversion disappeared?

2005-05-19 Thread Charles Hartman
, 2005, at 10:19 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > On 19-mei-2005, at 16:09, Charles Hartman wrote: > >> On May 19, 2005, at 9:55 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: >> >>> On 19-mei-2005, at 15:51, Charles Hartman wrote: >>>> >>>> (I also want the Tiger-distrib

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] wxversion disappeared?

2005-05-19 Thread Charles Hartman
I knew I was missing something obvious. Duh! Right, now everything works. Thanks for your patient help!Charles HartmanOn May 19, 2005, at 11:03 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: python2.3 correctly picks up the new version of wxPython. If you want to use wxPython 2.6 in python 2.3 and in python 2.4 you'll

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Python Help?

2005-06-02 Thread Charles Hartman
On Jun 1, 2005, at 10:33 PM, Matthew S-H wrote:##Seperates words with punctuation into 2 seperate words.def puncSep(list):    currentWord = -1    for word in list:        currentWord = currentWord + 1        if word[-1] in punctuation:#            list = list[:currentWord] + [word[0:-1], word[-1]]

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] macpython on future apple's intel processors?

2005-06-06 Thread Charles Hartman
The story seems to be that Apple's had an Intel version of OSX ready, and kept up to date, for five years. Which makes it *sound* as though the transition will be painless (for developers as well as users). I'll believe that when I see it. Charles Hartman On Jun 6, 2005, at 6:14

[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?

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

[Pythonmac-SIG] off-topic! BSD warning??

2005-06-16 Thread Charles Hartman
ng into the 10.4 install disk and found a package for BSD, and ran that installer and restarted. Still the same message! What in the world is going on? Any enlightening much appreciated. Charles Hartman ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] ANN: Boa Constructor for OS X available

2005-06-17 Thread Charles Hartman
The new version is very pretty, and very promising. Unfortunately, it crashes. I started the steps in the Help tutorial -- created a folder, made a new app with a frame -- and pressed the Run button, and the program crashed. Tried again, same thing. Charles Hartman On Jun 17, 2005, at 12

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Aquamacs

2005-06-17 Thread Charles Hartman
Forgot to thank you for this run-down. Thanks! I guess it depends -- like too much else -- on what I want. Charles Hartman On Jun 15, 2005, at 10:44 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Charles, > > There are indeed various versions

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] ANN: Boa Constructor for OS X available

2005-06-17 Thread Charles Hartman
t; http://www.kevin-walzer.com > http://www.smallbizmac.com. > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Charles Hartman wrote: > | The new version is very pretty, and very promising. > Unfortunately, it > | crashes. I started the steps in the Help tutorial -- created a > folder, > | m

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] ANN: Boa Constructor for OS X available

2005-06-17 Thread Charles Hartman
versions of Py/wxPy. > > Cheers, > > Kevin Walzer, PhD > WordTech Software--Open Source Applications and Packages for OS X > http://www.wordtech-software.com > http://www.kevin-walzer.com > http://www.smallbizmac.com. > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Charles Hartman

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] ANN: Boa Constructor for OS X available

2005-06-18 Thread Charles Hartman
If I understand the question, this is something that WingIDE does just fine. Charles Hartman On Jun 18, 2005, at 4:30 AM, Werner F. Bruhin wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > Kevin Walzer wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I don'

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Boa stability issues

2005-06-22 Thread Charles Hartman
On Jun 22, 2005, at 3:50 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: I like the idea of Python and wxWidgets, but with   the progress I'm making I'm tempted to move on. I know I'm setting   myself up for smart retorts, but I'm being honest -- so far the   install experience has been a disaster. If Python (and specific

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Python OCR on the Mac?

2005-10-23 Thread Charles Hartman
I for one would be really, really interested in hearing from anyone who's tried one or more of these. Any comparison shoppers at work out there? Charles Hartman On Oct 22, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Tom Pollard wrote: > > A little googling turned up the following interesting-so

[Pythonmac-SIG] elementary puzzle

2005-11-17 Thread Charles Hartman
--and off-topic too:I never work in Windows except to build distros, which I haven't done for a while. I have an app that works find in OSX and that works fine from inside the WingIDE, but when I use setup.py py2exe to build it and InnoSetup to make an installer, and then try to run the result, I g

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] elementary puzzle

2005-11-17 Thread Charles Hartman
ov 17, 2005, at 1:34 PM, Charles Hartman wrote:--and off-topic too:I never work in Windows except to build distros, which I haven't done for a while. I have an app that works find in OSX and that works fine from inside the WingIDE, but when I use setup.py py2exe to build it and InnoSetup to make an

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Preferred IDE

2005-11-28 Thread Charles Hartman
that I could find that worked consistently and well. Charles Hartman On Nov 28, 2005, at 12:17 PM, Jan Erik Moström wrote: > A somewhat similar question: is there a good debugger for python? > > Personally I prefer BBEdit as my editor but the thing I'm looking > for is a >

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Mac Python IDE

2005-11-29 Thread Charles Hartman
This same message keeps reappearing - ? On Nov 28, 2005, at 3:45 AM, mark hill wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to the best IDE > for Python on OS X. I've been informed that PythonIDE > has ceased development and that the cold is pretty > old. > > I don't want too many bells

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] MacPython documentation and webpages

2006-01-11 Thread Charles Hartman
Bless you guys -- this is a very helpful-looking project. I'm ignorant, but I can write. If (for example) you want me to do any editing, or something like that, I'd be delighted to help. Charles Hartman Professor of English, Poet in Residence Connecticut College [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] install again?

2006-02-06 Thread Charles Hartman
On Feb 6, 2006, at 5:00 AM, linda.s wrote:Python 2.3.5 instead of Python 2.4.2, very confused... Some onesuggested me to download MacPython. So I am thinking about removingthe Python 2.4.2 from my machine (still curious why it did notappear).You just want to change your PATH. If your built-from-scr

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] install again?

2006-02-06 Thread Charles Hartman
Hence, yet again, a plea for newbies everywhere:I continue to believe that it really, really shouldn't be necessary for people who want to write programs in Python for the Mac to do all this. Great to learn as much as possible, yes, always -- but to require people, just to get started, to learn abo

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] install again?

2006-02-06 Thread Charles Hartman
Oh well, "other platforms" -- if that means Linux of course you have to learn those same things, but you undoubtedly already know them. If it means Windows, I'd rather drive a truck, and I'm thinking particularly of potential users who feel the same way.There are a lot of programming environments o

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] install again?

2006-02-06 Thread Charles Hartman
I'm speculating that if the (rather small) gaps in the unpack-it-and-run scenario were filled, there might be a useful additonal user base for Python on the Mac. That's all. Charles On Feb 6, 2006, at 11:19 AM, Kevin Walzer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash:

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] install again?

2006-02-06 Thread Charles Hartman
Me & my big mouth. OK, I will take a serious look at the page, and see whether I can construct something that at least gets to the point of having blanks that someone with knowledge can fill in. Charles On Feb 6, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Christopher Barker wrote: > Charles, if you want to help, her

[Pythonmac-SIG] New Page, first proposal

2006-02-06 Thread Charles Hartman
OK, here's the first donkey -- please step up to the line & fire when ready.The project is to build a new front page for pythonmac.org that will serve as a welcome and introduction for anyone who wants to write Python programs on the Mac. (An assumption behind this is that the site will come up qui

[Pythonmac-SIG] a beginner's list

2006-02-06 Thread Charles Hartman
This is a little separate from my previous message, though it speaks to question #2 in that message. Somebody who comes idly to the idea of programming in Python, and finds the pythonmac page, will be happy if the result is an afternoon's work that ends in a "hello world," possibly in a wind

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] a beginner's list

2006-02-08 Thread Charles Hartman
I'm watching these responses & collecting views. (Obviously I'm also watching for comments on my "New Page, first proposal" outlline.) I'll propose changes to the page organization when things settle out a little more. Charles Charles Hartman Professor

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] a beginner's list (Or: everyone's talking; no-one's listening)

2006-02-08 Thread Charles Hartman
On Feb 8, 2006, at 11:18 AM, Louis Pecora wrote: > > I agree with the 2 teams approach and hope I can add something to the > non-pro/scientific user end. I would encourage Charles H. to get the > new web page up sooner than later. That's not demanding he work and I > watch, but I think that se

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] a beginner's list (Or: everyone's talking; no-one's listening)

2006-02-08 Thread Charles Hartman
006, at 12:00 PM, Louis Pecora wrote: > Charles Hartman wrote: >> >> On Feb 8, 2006, at 11:18 AM, Louis Pecora wrote: >> >> >> I'd like to get some feedback on the organization I proposed >> before I start trying to flesh anything out. The better the &g

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] New Page, first proposal

2006-02-08 Thread Charles Hartman
Thanks Chris. What's below is not a complete response, just a couple of specific, interim notes while I study up on the rest.Charles On Feb 8, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:also I hope a prominent one slapped onto the top of the MacPythonsite.)Do you mean Jack Jansen's site?Yes. I'm th

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] New Page, first proposal

2006-02-08 Thread Charles Hartman
On Feb 8, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Dethe Elza wrote:Hmmm.  If they don't know that Python is a programming language, why   are they here?  Familiarity with the terminal app and knowing how to   save python as a text file are certainly prerequisites at this point   though. I agree with the first point -- w

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] New Page, first proposal

2006-02-08 Thread Charles Hartman
e. ("I had to learn sudo to do X, and it's great, and now I'm going to try . . .") This is why people are afraid of Terminal, and the fear isn't *totally* irrational. Charles On Feb 8, 2006, at 4:39 PM, Christopher Barker wrote: > Charles Hartman wrote: >> I

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] New Page, first proposal

2006-02-08 Thread Charles Hartman
On Feb 8, 2006, at 6:01 PM, Louis Pecora wrote: > Charles Hartman wrote: >> I'm afraid that you're right about this, and I think it's the >> biggest obstacle to the project of getting (non-Unix) Mac users >> interested in Python when they go looking for

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