Python 2 EOL; what about P2 packages

I had missed the End-of-Life announcement of Python 2 for 2020. When installing a missing package on my new laptop, pip did warn me about this upcoming event. I have been reading up on the conversion. Unfortunately, I can find no information yet on coping with Python 2 only packages. So far, I i

Win32api problems

I recently installed IPython, Pandas, Altair, Jupyter, MatPlotLib, and Numpy on my Windows 10, Python27 installation to explore what it can do. When I tried to run my normal scripts a few days later, I discovered that win32com and related modules like win32ami give problems: Traceback (most rec

Re: Win32api problems

On Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 12:09:46 PM UTC+2, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 10/22/2019 5:23 AM, GerritM wrote: <...snip...> > > Install 1 at a time and try your normal scripts? Or try them with 3.7. > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy I am working on the Python 2 to Python 3

hash patent by AltNet; Python is prior art?

ZDnet features an article about the had patent at AltNet http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5534087.html . Apparantly this issue plays already for some time, now the p2p companies are threatened, becuase they use hashing to recognize files. As far as I know hasing is a very old technique used to q

PIL installation fails; registration problem

I am reinstalling everything on my new Windows 7 laptop. I run into a problem when installing PIL 1.1.7, in combination with my Activestate Python 2.7.8. The PIL installer complains that no Python is registered. I did run Joakim Löw's script to register Python. This results in the message "*** Y

Re: PIL installation fails; registration problem

Some more searching brought me to Pillow. That seems to work! No answer needed anymore on previous question. On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 9:51:53 PM UTC+1, GerritM wrote: > I am reinstalling everything on my new Windows 7 laptop. I run into a problem > when installing PIL 1.1

Python2.6 + win32com crashes with unicode bug

I have automated image generation with Python, win32com and Visio5.0. This works well upto Python2.5 but fails with Python 2.6. Short term solution is to return to 2.5 :-(. I have reproduced the bug below with a minimum of Python lines. Below the problem the working example from 2.5 kind rega

Re: Python2.6 + win32com crashes with unicode bug

Terry Reedy schreef: GerritM wrote: I have automated image generation with Python, win32com and Visio5.0. This works well upto Python2.5 but fails with Python 2.6. Short term solution is to return to 2.5 :-(. I have reproduced the bug below with a minimum of Python lines. Below the problem