[Pythonmac-SIG] NOHUPing a python process?

2005-01-19 Thread Nick Matsakis
I was wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to programmatically nohup a python process on Mac OS X. That is, is there a way for the script, as it is running, to ensure that it will keep running even if the user that started it logged out or shut his or her terminal? Nick Matsakis _

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] coding preference

2005-01-19 Thread Dethe Elza
That being said, I am hopeful about PyGUI, but it's a going to be at least another few years before it's as useful as wxPython (there isn't even a real Windows version yet!). After all, it took quite a few years for wxPython to become really usable. My mistake. I was under the impression that P

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] coding preference

2005-01-19 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jan 19, 2005, at 12:52, Charles Hartman wrote: In the meantime, wxPython (and probably PyQT, if the license works for you) is a pretty good option for cross platform code, and it's slowly becoming more Pythonic. Would you (or anyone) care to comment on the relative merits of the two? I've bee

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] coding preference

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Barker
Charles Hartman wrote: Would you (or anyone) care to comment on the relative merits of the two? I've been using wxPython, but since I have no 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 Win

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] coding preference

2005-01-19 Thread Pete
There are also a couple of pythonic wrappers for wxPython: WAX and PythonCard. I'm not fond of the wrappers around wrappers around wrappers approach, but if they work for you, who cares how many layers there are? -Chris Talking of PythonCard do you know if it has settled down, bugz and stabili

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] coding preference

2005-01-19 Thread Charles Hartman
In the meantime, wxPython (and probably PyQT, if the license works for you) is a pretty good option for cross platform code, and it's slowly becoming more Pythonic. Would you (or anyone) care to comment on the relative merits of the two? I've been using wxPython, but since I have no intention of

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] coding preference

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Barker
Dethe Elza wrote: Right now I'm not concerned with cross-platform issues, but if I were I'd rather see time spent on making a strong, Pythonic UI library on top of pyobjc (mac), pywin32 (win), and pygtk (linux), Like PyGUI? (http://nz.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python_gui/) On the other hand, I'

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] a RegEx question

2005-01-19 Thread Charles Hartman
Ah! Of course! Thank you. But no, you're right, it doesn't work on the find-the-longest problem. (Result is a recursion overrun; hm.) "We are working on some minor configuration/security issues which may result in odd behavior over the next 24-48 hours." -- notice on a BBS On Jan 18, 2005, at 5