Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-09 Thread Viktoras Didziulis
--- From: Russ McBride Date: 05/09/06 02:14:33 To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python Hey Geoff, Thanks for the link. I always appreciate those kinds of posts. I don't think I've heard a whole lot of great things about wxWidgets. As a sidenote-- a lot

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-08 Thread Russ McBride
Hey Geoff, Thanks for the link. I always appreciate those kinds of posts. I don't think I've heard a whole lot of great things about wxWidgets. As a sidenote-- a lot of people who've used Python have moved to Ruby and a lot of people who've been stuck using Java have fallen in love

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python / Ruby

2006-05-08 Thread Alex Tweedly
Russ McBride wrote: Hey Geoff, Thanks for the link. I always appreciate those kinds of posts. I don't think I've heard a whole lot of great things about wxWidgets. Hmmm - how odd that we've heard such different things :-) I believe that wxWidgets does a better job of producing GUI

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-07 Thread Judy Perry
Okay... Will probably do. The last time we tried was more than a year ago. On the to-do list... Thanks! Judy On Sun, 7 May 2006, Alex Tweedly wrote: Judy Perry wrote: The only thing he's not been able to get going is PythonCard. What trouble did he have ? Pythoncard used to be flaky

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-07 Thread Rodney Somerstein
Is he building double-clickable graphical aqua apps? I can use Python. The confusion is in figuring out how to set up wxWidgets (or tkAqua), which GUI builder to use, which IDE, etc., etc. In any case -- if he knows of a set of instructions to get from here to there, I'd love to know where

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
Rodney Somerstein wrote: Also, while Bob Ippolito has done what seems like a fairly nice job on py2app, the standalone builder for Mac Python, he seems to hold a very low regard for readable documentation. He wrote the tool for himself and makes it available for the good of the community.

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-06 Thread Geoff Canyon
On May 5, 2006, at 2:25 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Before I go and read the blog, I'll take a wild guess that you're on a Mac. True, but most of the issues I saw were platform-independent. For example, the latest version of Boa Constructor is 0.4.4-Alpha. Is the alpha release stable? If I

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-06 Thread Judy Perry
FWIW, my husband is a devoted python user and he's not had any problems with installing or using Python on a Mac in OS X (don't even know if OS 9 is possible...). The only thing he's not been able to get going is PythonCard. Judy On Fri, 5 May 2006, Alex Tweedly wrote: Before I go and read the

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-06 Thread Mark Schonewille
In fact, I can't imagine anything easier than installing Python on Mac OS X. Just install the developemnt tools from your OSX CD. When you write a script and give it a .py extension, double-click it and if you didn't make any mistakes in the syntax, your application will be saved next to

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-06 Thread Alex Tweedly
Judy Perry wrote: FWIW, my husband is a devoted python user and he's not had any problems with installing or using Python on a Mac in OS X (don't even know if OS 9 is possible...). The only thing he's not been able to get going is PythonCard. What trouble did he have ? Pythoncard used to

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-06 Thread Dan Shafer
If he needs help getting PythonCard running, have him send me an email or query Alex (who knows more about it than I do, I'm sure). The trick that bites most people I know who've tried this is the way OS X by default launches Python files in the IDE rather than with the PythonLauncher app that

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-06 Thread Geoff Canyon
On May 6, 2006, at 4:37 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: In fact, I can't imagine anything easier than installing Python on Mac OS X. Just install the developemnt tools from your OSX CD. When you write a script and give it a .py extension, double-click it and if you didn't make any mistakes in

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-06 Thread Geoff Canyon
On May 6, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Judy Perry wrote: FWIW, my husband is a devoted python user and he's not had any problems with installing or using Python on a Mac in OS X (don't even know if OS 9 is possible...). Is he building double-clickable graphical aqua apps? I can use Python. The

Re: Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-05 Thread Alex Tweedly
Geoff Canyon wrote: Those of you who know me know that I am always fascinated by different programming languages. I've programmed in more than a few, but read up on dozens. Lately I've been taking a stab at Python. I'm keeping track of progress at http://learningpython.wordpress.com/ So

Sort-of OT: Learning Python

2006-05-04 Thread Geoff Canyon
Those of you who know me know that I am always fascinated by different programming languages. I've programmed in more than a few, but read up on dozens. Lately I've been taking a stab at Python. I'm keeping track of progress at http://learningpython.wordpress.com/ So far it's mostly gripes