Should ctypes handle mis-matching structure return ABI between mingw and MSVC?

2011-07-05 Thread Just Fill Bugs
According the Bug 36834 of gcc, there is a mis-matching between mingw and MSVC when a struct was returned by value from a C function. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36834 Should ctypes handle this situation automatically somehow? A ctypes discussion on 2009: http://thread

Re: New Python.org website ?

2006-01-03 Thread Bugs
Aahz wrote: > Dunno about "in time for the new year", but there is a new design that is > supposedly in final stages of getting implemented. What's your hurry? No hurry: http://tinyurl.com/8d9ar -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

New Python.org website ?

2006-01-01 Thread Bugs
I thought I read here that a new website design was in the works for python.org in time for the new year? Is that still true and of so, anyone know what is it's status? Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Please enlighten me about PyPy

2005-12-22 Thread Bugs
Scott David Daniels wrote: > [snip] The big trick is that you can specialize the interpreter for > running _its_ input (a Python program), thus giving you a new > interpreter that only runs your Python program -- a very specialized > interpreter indeed. > Now THAT will be slick! What is the curr

Re: Guido at Google

2005-12-22 Thread Bugs
Greg Stein wrote: > 50% "on" > 100% "with" > Wow, that's great to know, thanks Greg! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Guido at Google

2005-12-22 Thread Bugs
So when *is* someone (either Guido himself or Google) going to officially announce that Guido has moved to Google? If at all? Also, it would be nice to know from Guido's perspective what, if any at all, impact this will have on Python? Maybe here? http://www.artima.com/weblogs/index.jsp?blogg

Re: python24.dll and encodings ?

2005-12-15 Thread Bugs
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Bugs wrote: > >>New PEP: "Small is beautiful!" ;-) > > > A PEP would have to be more elaborate than that; > it best be accompanied with an implementation as well. > Somebody has to do the work. > > Regards, > Martin &g

Re: python24.dll and encodings ?

2005-12-15 Thread Bugs
Thomas Heller wrote: [snip] > > A PEP discussing the rationales would *really* be great. My whole impetus for this thread was to minimize the size of Python executables created with py2exe. Right now they tend to be rather large, even for very small applications, as they include a bunch of un

Re: Python packages on OS X vs Windows

2005-12-14 Thread Bugs
Have you tried the ActiveState version of Python? http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Download.plex?id=ActivePython -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python24.dll and encodings ?

2005-12-13 Thread Bugs
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Not only that (but also). In addition, it also contains modules that > were previously implemented as separate .pyd files (_csv, _sre, > _symtable, _winreg, datetime, mmap, parser). > [snip] > > I previously said that I would do such a thing if somebody provided a > spe

Re: wxpython book

2005-12-11 Thread Bugs
Here's a more direct link: http://www.manning.com/books/rappin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

python24.dll and encodings ?

2005-12-07 Thread Bugs
I believe I read in a relatively recent thread that the reason python24.dll is so large compared to previous releases is that all the language encodings are linked into the library? Are there any plans for future releases to split the encodings out so that, for example, if someone wanted to mak

Re: wxGrid and Focus Event

2005-11-30 Thread Bugs
ommunity is what makes it better. I agree, it's still a great toolkit even with the bugs. But think how much better a toolkit it would be with fewer bugs! =) Thanks Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: wxGrid and Focus Event

2005-11-29 Thread Bugs
So Paul, are you saying there's a bug with the wxGrid control and if so, do you know if there's been a bug-report submitted to the wxWidgets and/or wxPython folks? Or is this just the way the wxGrid control works? Thanks! Paul McNett wrote: > Not so fast. I've found out that I had to do the fol

Re: Book: Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets?

2005-11-28 Thread Bugs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was wondering if people using wxPython found this book useful? Is it > worth the money? Thanks > It might be better for Python folks to just wait for this book, due Jan 1, 2006: http://www.manning.com/books/rappin http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1932394621/002-8046

Re: PyFLTK - an underrated gem for GUI projects

2005-11-07 Thread Bugs
Roger Binns wrote: > > It is possible to make the wxPython smaller by having more DLLs each with > fewer widgets in it. That way you will only suck in the ones you use. > I find this VERY interesting Roger, I've been contemplating making such a request to the maintainer of wxPython (when he ge

Re: PyFLTK - an underrated gem for GUI projects

2005-11-06 Thread Bugs
Hi Peter, I just used the setup.py that comes in the singlefile/gui sample. However, py2exe does still also require the msvcr71.dll runtime as well, which is 340kb. Here it is, it's a bit lengthy: # If run without args, build executables, in quiet mode. if len(sys.argv) == 1: sys.argv.appe

Re: PyFLTK - an underrated gem for GUI projects

2005-11-06 Thread Bugs
Peter Hansen wrote: > > The wxPython program below, py2exe'd on my machine (1.6GHz Pentium M), > comes to only 12MB (2-3MB of which is Python itself), and takes 1-2 > seconds to load (actually less than one second after the first > invocation following a fresh reboot). > And even 12MB seems h

Re: New project coming up...stay with Python, or go with a dot net language??? Your thoughts please!

2005-10-05 Thread Bugs
Another page with up to date IronPython information: http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=ad7acff7-ab1e-4bcb-99c0-57ac5a3a9742 Cameron Laird wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, spiffo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > . > . >

Re: py2exe has a new maintainer

2005-10-05 Thread Bugs
This is great Jimmy and thanks. Py2exe is too handy of a project to let fall into obsolescence. I especially appreciate your willingness to work with other projects in developing synergies between them. Thanks again. Jimmy Retzlaff wrote: > I am taking over the maintenance and support of py2ex

Re: RELEASED Python 2.4.2 (final)

2005-09-30 Thread Bugs
that everything seemed to work properly. I'm not sure where the Python 2.4.2 installation put it's python24.dll? Please let me know if you need additional details. Thanks, Bugs Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Trent Mick wrote: > >>I suppose that is possible. Martin, does python-2.

Re: RELEASED Python 2.4.2 (final)

2005-09-29 Thread Bugs
Thanks Trent, you called it, it was an errant python24.dll left over from an old ActiveState installation. Trent Mick wrote: [snip] > > It is possible that the python.org installer didn't overwrite the > "python24.dll" in the system directory (C:\WINDOWS\system32). Try doing > this: > [snip] --

Re: RELEASED Python 2.4.2 (final)

2005-09-29 Thread Bugs
I downloaded the 2.4.2 Windows Binary Installer from python.org but when I try to run python.exe I get the following in the console: ActivePython 2.4.1 Build 247 (ActiveState Corp.) based on Python 2.4.1 (#65, Jun 20 2005, 17:01:55) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "

Re: Getting tired with py2exe

2005-09-26 Thread Bugs
tency would be very beneficial. Perhaps then a Linux version could be developed with an identical inferface. Thomas Heller wrote: > Bugs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>Any luck on finding anyone to take over py2exe development Thomas? >>It's a GREAT projec

Re: Getting tired with py2exe

2005-09-23 Thread Bugs
Any luck on finding anyone to take over py2exe development Thomas? It's a GREAT project and would be a shame to see it fall into obsolescence. Thomas Heller wrote: [snip] > > Is anyone interested in taking over the maintainance, documentation, and > further development? > [snip] -- http://mai

Re: Getting tired with py2exe

2005-09-20 Thread Bugs
Thomas Heller wrote: [snip] > > Is anyone interested in taking over the maintainance, documentation, and > further development? > > Should py2exe be integrated into another, larger, package? Pywin32 > comes to mind, but also Philip Eby's setuptools (that's why I post to > distutils-sig as well).

Re: Getting tired with py2exe

2005-09-20 Thread Bugs
Steve M wrote: [snip] > * Dual packaging mode: >* Single directory: build a directory containing an executable plus > all > the external binary modules (.dll, .pyd, .so) used by the program. >* Single file: build a single executable file, totally > self-contained, > which runs without any

Re: How to protect Python source from modification

2005-09-13 Thread Bugs
Thanks Frank, I appreciate the feedback. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to protect Python source from modification

2005-09-12 Thread Bugs
As a side question Frank, how was your experiences using wxPython for your GUI? Any regrets choosing wxPyton over another toolkit? Was it very buggy? How was it to work with in general? Any other real-world wxPython feedback you have is appreciated. Frank Millman wrote: > I am writing a multi-use

Re: py2exe 0.6.2 released

2005-09-07 Thread Bugs
As a big test of Thomas's excellent work with py2exe, I tried to create a single-file executable of the wxPython demo (demo.py). The executable was built (5.3MB) but gets a C++ runtime error when I try to execute? Here's the log: Traceback (most recent call last): File "demo.py", line 4, in ?

Re: py2exe 0.6.1 released

2005-09-05 Thread Bugs
Thomas Heller wrote: > Changes in this release: > > * py2exe can now bundle binary extensions and dlls into the > library-archive or the executable itself. This allows to > finally build real single-file executables. > > The bundled dlls and pyds are loaded at runtime by so

Re: learning python

2005-09-05 Thread Bugs
If you're already fluent in other programming language(s) [sounds like you are], then this is decent and available free online: http://www.diveintopython.org/ placid wrote: > > Sometimes when you concentrate on complicated problems your thinking of > a complicated solution and not a simple one

Re: py to exe: suggestions?

2005-08-28 Thread Bugs
If your users already have Python installed then you could just create a self-extracting, self-executing .exe that contains only your scripts and necessary files. I belive many of the popular zip utilities have the ability to do this. The free info-zip does this as well: http://www.info-zip.o

Re: The state of OO wrappers on top of wxPython (was Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python)

2005-07-30 Thread Bugs
Cliff Wells wrote: > > But how stable is GTK on systems such as Windows and OS/X? That has > been what has kept me from using it. Most GTK apps I've used on Windows > (including the venerable GIMP) are nowhere near as stable as their Linux > counterparts (although this may not be entirely the fa