Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Which version to use??

2010-05-25 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 25 May, 2010, at 23:15, Rodney Somerstein wrote: > At 10:08 PM +0200 5/25/10, Ronald Oussoren wrote: >> Python 3.1.2 works fine on OSX. There is an issue with building extensions >> on OSX 10.6, but that will be fixed in 3.1.3. >> >> PyObjC in the repository works with python 3 and I'm worki

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] PIL binaries -- please test

2010-05-25 Thread Zvezdan Petkovic
On May 25, 2010, at 6:24 PM, Matthias Baas wrote: > I tried the py2.6 binary on OSX 10.4. The package installs fine but it > can't really load an image. When I open a jpg, I can read its size but > as soon as I try to load the data, I get an import error: > > ImportError: The _imaging C module is

[Pythonmac-SIG] DESTDIR problem

2010-05-25 Thread Chris Kees
Hi, I'm having trouble with 'make install' trying to put or touch a few things in /Applications even though I've set the prefix and framework directories to be $MY_PREFIX as in ./configure --prefix=${MY_PREFIX} --enable-framework=${MY_PREFIX} --disable-universalsdk MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] PIL binaries -- please test

2010-05-25 Thread Christopher Barker
Matthias Baas wrote: Christopher Barker wrote: Much to my surprise, I had a little time to build some PIL binaries: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/855965/PIL-OSX-Binaries/PIL-1.1.7-py2.5-macosx10.5.mpkg.zip http://dl.dropbox.com/u/855965/PIL-OSX-Binaries/PIL-1.1.7-py2.6-macosx10.5.mpkg.zip I built

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] OSX10.6/readline-6.1/python-2.6.5

2010-05-25 Thread Chris Kees
Thanks for explaining the situation with readline. As you suspected, what was happening is that an older version of readline was installed in /usr/local/lib that I had forgotten about. The GNU readline I had built as a 2-way 32/64-bit and installed into ${MY_PREFIX} wasn't getting linked in. Aft

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Which version to use??

2010-05-25 Thread Christopher Barker
Rodney Somerstein wrote: Hopefully things will start to fall into place for Python 3.x. I see questions on comp.lang.python and elsewhere from people wanting to use Python 3.x as their main development language. I think many people, such as myself, are reluctant to jump into Python right now. M

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Which version to use??

2010-05-25 Thread Matthias Baas
Rodney Somerstein wrote: > At 11:17 AM -0700 5/25/10, Christopher Barker wrote: >> Honestly, I don't know if the Mac is in any poorer position with >> regard to Python 3 as any other platform. >> >> NONE of the major packages I use have been ported to Py3 on any >> platform: numpy, SciPy, wxPython.

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] PIL binaries -- please test

2010-05-25 Thread Matthias Baas
aditya bhargava wrote: > How do you determine which version of Python to build for? I'm on 10.4 > and I've got two versions of Python – python2.3 in /usr/bin/python and > python2.5 in /opt/local/bin/python. python2.5 is my default (i.e. the > one that shows when I run 'which python'), but the packa

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] PIL binaries -- please test

2010-05-25 Thread Matthias Baas
Christopher Barker wrote: > Much to my surprise, I had a little time to build some PIL binaries: > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/855965/PIL-OSX-Binaries/PIL-1.1.7-py2.5-macosx10.5.mpkg.zip > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/855965/PIL-OSX-Binaries/PIL-1.1.7-py2.6-macosx10.5.mpkg.zip > > I'd really like folks

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Which version to use??

2010-05-25 Thread Rodney Somerstein
At 10:08 PM +0200 5/25/10, Ronald Oussoren wrote: Python 3.1.2 works fine on OSX. There is an issue with building extensions on OSX 10.6, but that will be fixed in 3.1.3. PyObjC in the repository works with python 3 and I'm working towards a release. I haven't looked into py2app yet. With some

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Which version to use??

2010-05-25 Thread Rodney Somerstein
At 11:17 AM -0700 5/25/10, Christopher Barker wrote: Honestly, I don't know if the Mac is in any poorer position with regard to Python 3 as any other platform. NONE of the major packages I use have been ported to Py3 on any platform: numpy, SciPy, wxPython. Many of those are well supported on

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] PIL binaries -- please test

2010-05-25 Thread aditya bhargava
How do you determine which version of Python to build for? I'm on 10.4 and I've got two versions of Python – python2.3 in /usr/bin/python and python2.5 in /opt/local/bin/python. python2.5 is my default (i.e. the one that shows when I run 'which python'), but the package installer doesn't seem to re

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Which version to use??

2010-05-25 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 25 May, 2010, at 18:18, Rodney Somerstein wrote: > On Tuesday, May 24, 2010, Aahz wrote: >> If you care about the Mac (particularly in terms of being able to use >> PyObjC and/or py2app), stick with 2.x for now. Otherwise, it doesn't >> matter much which exact version of 3.x you use. > > Thi

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] OSX10.6/readline-6.1/python-2.6.5

2010-05-25 Thread Zvezdan Petkovic
On May 25, 2010, at 2:40 PM, Charles Turner wrote: > On May 25, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Chris Kees wrote: > >> I'm compiling python and readline from source and getting a segmentation >> fault in readline > > This approach worked for me: > >

[Pythonmac-SIG] PIL binaries -- please test

2010-05-25 Thread Christopher Barker
Hi folks, Much to my surprise, I had a little time to build some PIL binaries: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/855965/PIL-OSX-Binaries/PIL-1.1.7-py2.5-macosx10.5.mpkg.zip http://dl.dropbox.com/u/855965/PIL-OSX-Binaries/PIL-1.1.7-py2.6-macosx10.5.mpkg.zip I'd really like folks to test them on as many d

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] OSX10.6/readline-6.1/python-2.6.5

2010-05-25 Thread Charles Turner
On May 25, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Chris Kees wrote: > I'm compiling python and readline from source and getting a segmentation > fault in readline This approach worked for me: I believe there's a test or two that fails,

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Which version to use??

2010-05-25 Thread Christopher Barker
Rodney Somerstein wrote: If you care about the Mac (particularly in terms of being able to use PyObjC and/or py2app), stick with 2.x for now. Otherwise, it doesn't matter much which exact version of 3.x you use. This brings up a question for me as to what the state of Python is on the Mac. Py

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] OSX10.6/readline-6.1/python-2.6.5

2010-05-25 Thread Zvezdan Petkovic
On May 25, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Chris Kees wrote: > Hi, > > I'm compiling python and readline from source and getting a segmentation > fault in readline after two lines of input. Anybody seen this before or know > the fix? Summary of the problem follows. > > % python > Python 2.6.5 (r265:3362, M

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Which version to use??

2010-05-25 Thread Rodney Somerstein
On Tuesday, May 24, 2010, Aahz wrote: If you care about the Mac (particularly in terms of being able to use PyObjC and/or py2app), stick with 2.x for now. Otherwise, it doesn't matter much which exact version of 3.x you use. This brings up a question for me as to what the state of Python is on

[Pythonmac-SIG] OSX10.6/readline-6.1/python-2.6.5

2010-05-25 Thread Chris Kees
Hi, I'm compiling python and readline from source and getting a segmentation fault in readline after two lines of input. Anybody seen this before or know the fix? Summary of the problem follows. % python Python 2.6.5 (r265:3362, May 25 2010, 09:06:56) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5659)] on darwin