Re: PYTHON WORKING WITH PERL ??

2008-10-21 Thread srf99
>  http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/pyperl-1.0/perlmodule.pod

A friend of mine who is a Perl user pointed out that although the
"perl" module exists:

I think it was largely experimental. As you can see from its release
page:
http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/pyperl-1.0/
it was created in 2001 and hasn't been updated, and it has mostly
failed the automated tests.

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Re: Learning Tkinter

2008-04-16 Thread srf99
You might want to look at these:

Thinking in Tkinter
http://www.ferg.org/thinking_in_tkinter/index.html

Easygui
http://www.ferg.org/easygui/index.html
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Re: How is GUI programming in Python?

2008-04-16 Thread srf99
> I'd like to build a really simple GUI app  
> that will work across Mac, Windows, and Linux.

You might look at easygui
http://www.ferg.org/easygui/index.html

That will give you something simple and workable.  Then you can go on
to more advanced stuff at your leisure.
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question about setup.py and CC and LDSHARED env variables on Solaris

2008-04-16 Thread srf99
Recently I was trying to compile/install cx_Oracle on our Solaris
system.

When I ran "python setup.py build" I got the following message:
"/usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed"

I Googled around and discovered that this is a frequently-encountered
issue on Solaris systems, because Solaris systems don't have the
Solaris C compiler installed by default.  (We certainly don't.  We
use  gcc instead.)

After poking around in the source code for distutils, I figured out
that I could get setup.py to work if -- *before* running setup.py -- I
set two environment variables:

export CC=gcc
export LDSHARED="gcc -G"

Afterward, in searching the Web, I couldn't find any documentation to
tell me that I had to do this, or why, or when.

So my question is:
Does anyone know the location of documentation (about distutils, or
about using setup.py) that tells you

 - that you have to do this,
 - why you have to do it,
 - the circumstances under which you have to do it?

I'm a Unix newbie, so I may very well have missed something obvious.

Thanks in advance,
-- Steve Ferg

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What can we do about all the spam that the list is getting?

2008-04-16 Thread srf99
What can we do about all the spam that comp.lang.python is getting?
Things are getting pretty bad.
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