Mailman 3 July 2008 - Pythonmac-SIG

Yet another problem with path
by Pascal Bompard Aug. 8, 2008

Aug. 8, 2008

The problem I am experiencing is that I can run a Python script successfully if I use the full path to the script, but I can't run it otherwise. I have checked and set my $PATH as well as $PYTHONPATH to be correct. Also, the sys.path has a correct reference. I have also confirmed that permissions are correct for the script file and it's directory. So basically, everything seems correct but clearly isn't. I'm at my wits end, so any help would be much appreciated. I perhaps should add that while I am a long time Mac user, I am a not very familiar with the Terminal, so perhaps am missing something obvious to everyone else. I will include some terminal output below to help with diagnostics: Successful attempt: ---------------------------------------- pascal$ python /Users/pascal/Documents/Python/Dev/myapps/test.py Unsuccessful attempt: ---------------------------------------- pascal$ python test.py /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/ Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python: can't open file 'test.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory $PATH output: ---------------------------------------- pascal$ $PATH -bash: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/Users/pascal/ Documents/Python/Dev/myapps:/usr/X11/bin: No such file or directory $PYTHONPATH output: ---------------------------------------- pascal$ $PYTHONPATH -bash: /Users/pascal/Documents/Python/Dev:/Users/pascal/Documents/ Python/Dev/myapps:/Users/pascal/Documents/Python/Dev/mylib:: No such file or directory And lastly, sys.path output: ---------------------------------------- >>> import sys >>> print sys.path ['', '/Users/pascal/Documents/Python/Dev', '/Users/pascal/Documents/ Python/Dev/myapps', '/Users/pascal/Documents/Python/Dev/mylib', '/ Users/pascal', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/ 2.5/lib/python25.zip', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/ Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5', '/System/Library/Frameworks/ Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/plat-darwin', '/System/ Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/plat- mac', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/ python2.5/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages', '/System/Library/Frameworks/ Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python', '/System/Library/ Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/lib-tk', '/ System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/ lib-dynload', '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages', '/System/Library/ Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/PyObjC']

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[py2app] problems running .app built on 10.5 on standard 10.4
by Mike Keith Aug. 3, 2008

Aug. 3, 2008

hi there, probably a silly question, but i'm having trouble producing an .app of a python script which will run on a bog standard tiger system. the mac i'm building the .app on is running 10.5 and only has the default apple python 2.5. the error the person running 10.4 sees is: A Python runtime could be located. You may need to install a framework build of Python, or edit the PyRuntimeLocations array in this application's Info.plist file. (should that be "A Python runtime could not..." ?) are my problems down to the fact that i'm using apple's python 2.5 to build the .app? does this force it into using the semi-standalone option? (certainly appears to) if so, any advice on how to proceed? cheers, Mike

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Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] py access to speech synth?
by DavidW July 31, 2008

July 31, 2008

Thanks for replying. I know about "say". What's wrong with such high-level control is, for example, that there isn't any tempo or prosody control or phoneme control - if that's their synthesis method - (a 'cello that is fixated on the Hall of the Mountain King would soon become my enemy :-) I haven't used PyObjC before so I'll have a go at NSSpeechSynthesizer. Thanks! Any other views? David On 31/07/2008, at 9:08 PM, Alcides Fonseca wrote: > > Em 2008/07/31, às 10:54, DavidW escreveu: > >> Hello all, >> >> Does anyone know whether there's any work being done on a python >> interface to the OSX speech synthesiser? >> > > What's wrong with > > import os > os.system("say -v Cellos Python does not have braces have braces > have bracesThats why I love python so much") > > I guess there is already a OSA interface, and you can translate the > following AppleScript to Python: > > say "To see other application windows again, select Show All from > the Finder menu." using "Vicki" > > Hope it helped... > > Alcides

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py access to speech synth?
by DavidW July 31, 2008

July 31, 2008

Hello all, Does anyone know whether there's any work being done on a python interface to the OSX speech synthesiser? thanks, ________________________________________________ David Worrall.

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Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] py access to speech synth?
by Hengist Podd July 31, 2008

July 31, 2008

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MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET with Leopard system Python
by Anand Patil July 31, 2008

July 31, 2008

Hi all, This languished on comp.lang.python, sorry about the cross-post. I'm getting the following error: distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: $MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET mismatch: now "10.3" but "10.5" during configure on Leopard using system Python when trying to compile some third-party modules but not others. I've set MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET to 10.5 to no avail. It looks like lots of people have seen similar problems, but the fixes seem to involve running configure, which means a new Python build. Is it possible to fix the problem and still use the system Python? Thanks, Anand Patil

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problem compiling extension modules for 10.5
by Garry Willgoose July 31, 2008

July 31, 2008

I have posted this problem a few months ago on several places but it has languished. I have been developing an extension using ActivePython 2.5.2 under 10.4 for some time now. When I switched to 10.5 I can no longer do this. The module compiles fine but when I import the library I get the following message ... willgoose-macpro:modules garrywillgoose$ python ActivePython 2.5.2.2 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Mar 27 2008, 17:40:23) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import tsim Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version mismatch?) Abort trap Now when the module is compiled on an old 10.4 machine (same python, everything) and then copied to the new 10.5 machine it works fine. The error I believe from what little I have already found out is because the versions (compilers, libraries, etc??) of python and my module are incompatible (somewhere I saw that activepython is compiled against 10.4). I tried setting the environment variable MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4 but still no go. Any suggestions. ==================================================================== Prof Garry Willgoose, Australian Professorial Fellow in Environmental Engineering, Director, Centre for Climate Impact Management (C2IM), School of Engineering, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, 2308 Australia. Centre webpage: www.c2im.org.au Phone: (International) +61 2 4921 6050 (Tues-Fri AM); +61 2 6545 9574 (Fri PM-Mon) FAX: (International) +61 2 4921 6991 (Uni); +61 2 6545 9574 (personal and Telluric) Env. Engg. Secretary: (International) +61 2 4921 6042 email: garry.willgoose(a)newcastle.edu.au; g.willgoose(a)telluricresearch.com email-for-life: garry.willgoose(a)alum.mit.edu personal webpage: www.telluricresearch.com/garry ==================================================================== "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" Ralph Waldo Emerson ====================================================================

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New to Python - how to get Py2App to work?
by Chris Mills July 29, 2008

July 29, 2008

Greetings, I am new to Python, have never developed tools with C++ (I have extensive MEL scripting experience with Autodesk's Maya), and am faced with needing to develop tools to deploy into a Mac OSX 10.5 environment. I've downloaded and installed py2app with ez-install and now am faced with getting it to work. I have a simple python script which runs from inside the IDE and does what it is supposed to do, but I can not figure out how to get py2app to work. I've seen a number of setup.py references about, but what I would really like is a step by step procedure for getting a simple "hello world" app to be built so that I can have some contextual reference and from there I can probably iterate my way to a successful solution. Is there a basic guide out there? The docs on: http://undefined.org/python/py2app.html do not make sense to me. Thanking you in advance for your patience and guidance. Kind regards, Chris Mills Lizard Lounge Graphics, LTD. Wellington, NZ http://lizardlounge.com Int'l: +644-977-5400 / +642-174-8770 NZ local: 04-977-5400 / 021-748-770 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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file system encoding and type
by Henning Hraban Ramm July 29, 2008

July 29, 2008

How can I detect for some entry in "/Volumes" what kind of volume it is, e.g. Harddisk, USB stick, CD/DVD, and what encoding it uses? For a CD/DVD cataloguing tool I need to detect removable disks. At the moment I call "mount" like this: import re, subprocess def findCD(): """ Look for mounted volumes and return the first CD. Works probably only on MacOS X, depends on the output of 'mount' """ mountlines = subprocess.Popen('mount', stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0].split('\n') reMountLine = re.compile('(.+) on (/[^(]*)($(.+)$)?', re.I) for ml in mountlines: m = reMountLine.match(ml) if not m: continue g = m.groups() modes = g[3] if modes: modes = modes.split(', ') if ('nodev' in modes) and ('read-only' in modes): return unicode(g[1].strip(), 'utf-8') # here we need to know the FS encoding! return None This is a sample output of "mount" on my Leopard machine: hraban$ mount /dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) fdesc on /dev (fdesc, union) map -hosts on /net (autofs, automounted) map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted) /dev/disk1s1 on /Volumes/RTFM (msdos, local, nodev, nosuid, noowners) /dev/disk2s0 on /Volumes/family 2008 (cd9660, local, nodev, nosuid, read-only, noowners) "RTFM" is my USB stick. "family 2008" is a CD. I.e. - "hfs", "msdos" or "cd9660" give a hint about the file system's encoding: - hfs: decomposed UTF-8 - msdos: latin-1 - cd9660: ? - "nodev" seems to mark a removable volume - "read-only" is normally a CD/DVD I couldn't find anything in Python's standard libraries to get this information. Is there? I would prefer a platform independent solution. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] quick tutorial on aemreceive
by Hengist Podd July 29, 2008

July 29, 2008

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