Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Possibly OT: Get path to icon file for PIL?

2008-01-03 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 3 Jan, 2008, at 23:08, Kevin Walzer wrote: I'm looking for a Python API that will return the path to an icon file which I can then read via PIL and display in my application. The available API's that I can find--NSWorkspace and IconServices--provide various hooks to obtaining and displaying

[Pythonmac-SIG] Possibly OT: Get path to icon file for PIL?

2008-01-03 Thread Kevin Walzer
I'm looking for a Python API that will return the path to an icon file which I can then read via PIL and display in my application. The available API's that I can find--NSWorkspace and IconServices--provide various hooks to obtaining and displaying an icon, but neither appears to support findin

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread Robin Dunn
Christopher Barker wrote: > * What about people installing upgrades to packages? IIUC, the Apple > python puts stuff in a dir that is before site-packages, so if you > install a newer version of a package that Apple already had, it won't be > used without sys.path manipulations. I think numpy was

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Leopard easy_install chokes on appscript egg

2008-01-03 Thread has
On 31 Dec 2007, at 14:09, Ronald Oussoren wrote: [cc.d to Bob for his info] >>> That's a buglet in Python, fixed in what will be 2.5.2. Apple's >>> python doesn't do universal binaries and setuptools doesn't know >>> that an 'fat' egg will do on a 'ppc' or 'i386' platform. After further poki

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 3 Jan, 2008, at 19:28, Tobias Rodäbel wrote: On Jan 3, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: I want to do whatever keeps my live as easy as possible, either an umbrella package with small hotfix packages or one package that installs all hotfixes. I also want to keep the addon package

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 3 Jan, 2008, at 18:42, Bill Janssen wrote: * Hotfix for distutils to ensure that distutils builds univeral binaries (32-bit only at first) Is there a bug # for this? Possibly with a patch that we could start with :-? There is a fix in python's repository. I'll have to look up the deta

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread Tobias Rodäbel
On Jan 3, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > I want to do whatever keeps my live as easy as possible, either an > umbrella package with small hotfix packages or one package that > installs all hotfixes. I also want to keep the addon package as > small as possible and don't want to en

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread Bill Janssen
> * Hotfix for distutils to ensure that distutils builds univeral > binaries (32-bit only at first) Is there a bug # for this? Possibly with a patch that we could start with :-? Bill ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread William Kyngesburye
On Jan 3, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: >> I think that for "true" end users Idle is the only serious >> omission. The first one is really for developers only, and the >> second one doesn't really become important until such fat eggs >> become widely available (which they are not

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread Christopher Barker
Ronald Oussoren wrote: > I think we should start a small project for "MacPython Addons", This looks very promising. Thanks for getting it going. > this project will install: > > * Hotfix for distutils to ensure that distutils builds univeral > binaries (32-bit only at first) * (possibly) hotfix

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 3 Jan, 2008, at 17:03, Jack Jansen wrote: On 3 jan 2008, at 14:22, Ronald Oussoren wrote: Now that there are several people that want to support Apple's build of python: how do we go forward from here? I think we should start a small project for "MacPython Addons", this project will

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread Jack Jansen
On 3 jan 2008, at 14:22, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > Now that there are several people that want to support Apple's build > of python: how do we go forward from here? > > I think we should start a small project for "MacPython Addons", this > project will install: > > * Hotfix for distutils to en

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread Andrew Jaffe
Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > On 3 Jan, 2008, at 15:18, Andrew Jaffe wrote: >> >> I'm not sure whether this is the correct thread/place for this, but is >> there any official "best practice" for Python under Leopard? >> >> I.E., should we still be using the MacPython framework build (since I >> assum

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 3 Jan, 2008, at 15:18, Andrew Jaffe wrote: Hi All, I'm not sure whether this is the correct thread/place for this, but is there any official "best practice" for Python under Leopard? This is the right thread for that (albeith one with a lame subject). I.E., should we still be using th

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread Andrew Jaffe
Hi All, I'm not sure whether this is the correct thread/place for this, but is there any official "best practice" for Python under Leopard? I.E., should we still be using the MacPython framework build (since I assume that is more likely to track current python versions than the Apple build). I

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] newbie Mac switcher trying to set up django on Intel MacBook Pro Tiger

2008-01-03 Thread Ronald Oussoren
Now that there are several people that want to support Apple's build of python: how do we go forward from here? I think we should start a small project for "MacPython Addons", this project will install: * Hotfix for distutils to ensure that distutils builds univeral binaries (32-bit only