Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] 2.3 vs 2.4

2006-04-15 Thread Robertson Holt
Ok, right I thought ApplePython = MacPython and got confused by this paragraph on the MacPython site, NOT python.org "The downside of Apple including 2.3 is that running MacPython 2.3.3 on Mac OS X 10.3 is a bit of a problem: when you install the full MacPython 2.3.3 distribution (the one labell

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] 2.3 vs 2.4 - Installer myopia

2006-04-15 Thread Daniel Lord
On Apr 15, 2006, at 16:03, Bob Ippolito wrote: > It's possible that the wxPython guys screwed up, or it's possible > that you downloaded an installer for Apple's Python 2.3 framework > and expected it to work with an entirely different version of > Python installed in another location. You

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] 2.3 vs 2.4 - Installer myopia

2006-04-15 Thread Daniel Lord
On Apr 15, 2006, at 5:57 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:Installers for extensions are specific to a particular version ofPython anyway.  But is that always necessary? I am sure it is sometimes, particularly when the OS changes dramatically like from 10.3 to 10.4.But what about the case of the Alias researc

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] 2.3 vs 2.4

2006-04-15 Thread Daniel Lord
On Apr 15, 2006, at 14:10, Troy Rollins wrote:The thing I'm slightly unclear about is the best way to change my   path on OSX. Changing things like ~/.profile and ~/.bash_profile   change it for the shell, but do not change it systemwide. I've   modified my ~/.MacOSX.environment.plist, which seems

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] 2.3 vs 2.4

2006-04-15 Thread Troy Rollins
On Apr 15, 2006, at 5:57 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > Is there any particular reason to change it in > MacOSX.environment.plist? What applications do you use that aren't > started from the shell, yet look in $PATH for Python? I've never > seen one, but then again I don't use GUI text editors

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] 2.3 vs 2.4

2006-04-15 Thread Troy Rollins
On Apr 15, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Daniel Lord wrote: > The recommended approach (and it used to be the default on install > for MacPython--I beleive it may still be but is optional now) is to > install MacPython in /usr/local/bin leaving Apple's Python 2.3 > intact. Then you put /usr/local/bin in your

[Pythonmac-SIG] Fwd: more OS X oddities

2006-04-15 Thread Nicholas Cole
I realised that on OS X it is almost impossible (or at least I can't find a way) to capture F-key or meta-key presses using the python curses module. The following email has some code which illustrates the problem (it reports key-presses in 3 different ways). For some reason I don't understand it

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] 2.3 vs 2.4

2006-04-15 Thread Daniel Lord
It is _not_ a good thing to remove Apple's Python. Don't panic though. First, let's stop this from happening to anybody else... Can you tell me where those instructions are that recommend that on Python.org? I believe they refer to a previous _MacPython_ that was installed which is not the sa

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] 2.3 vs 2.4

2006-04-15 Thread Bill Janssen
> Hi, > > I'm using 10.3.9 > > removed Python 2.3 as per instructions on python.org > > installed Python 2.4 > > and now can't launch some apps which reference 2.3 Please point me to the instructions on python.org which tell you to remove Python 2.3 from your Mac, so that I can stamp them out!

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] readline: where and how installed?

2006-04-15 Thread Bill Janssen
> I could make some nasty remarks about emacs and you could then > strike back with remarks about vi, but lets not go there :-) Thanks for reminding me of vi. As I understand it (I'm afraid I've never seen the point of knowing much about vi :-) the model vi uses is quite different -- "lean and me

[Pythonmac-SIG] 2.3 vs 2.4

2006-04-15 Thread Robertson Holt
Hi, I'm using 10.3.9 removed Python 2.3 as per instructions on python.org installed Python 2.4 and now can't launch some apps which reference 2.3 dyld: /Applications/Alias/MotionBuilder 7 PLE/MotionBuilder 7 PLE.app/Contents/MacOS/ple can't open library: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.frame