Speno's Pythonic Avocado 2004/8

2004-08-20

To the fairest

In my previous career, I built and administered UNIX systems. One of my servers has been up for 5 years now. Good job, server-01! Hope you get to retire soon...

% uptime 21:13 up 1827 days, 6:04, 2 users, load average: 0.16, 0.03, 0.02

In other news, today is also my ninth wedding anniversary. Happy anniversary, baby!

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2004-08-14

py2exe and bundlebuilder in use

There's a window's client version of "Project Albatross". Last time I built it using the McMillan Installer. That worked fine, but I didn't like its configuration.

This time around I've decided to use py2exe. I wanted to use it last time too, but there wasn't a Python 2.3 version ready yet. (The last version of "Project Albatross" shipped with Python 2.3alpha2 as its Python interpreter. The new version will use 2.3.4.)

py2exe uses regular distutils stuff, so getting it working was a breeze. I recommend it. Here's my setup.py file for building the Windows client:

from distutils.core import setup import py2exe opts = { "py2exe": { "packages": ["encodings"], "excludes": ["_ssl", "win32api"], "includes": ["msvcr70"], } } setup( windows= [ { "script" : "Albatross.py", "icon_resources" : [ (1, "Albatross.ico")] }, { "script" : "ActiveDirector.py", "dest_base" : "Albatross Assistant", "icon_resources" : [ (1, "Albatross.ico")] }, ], options=opts )

On the Macintosh side, I got myself an old powerbook G3 and installed MacOS X 10.2.8 with Python 2.3.4 and AquaTK 8.4.6. I'm using bundlebuilder to create the application. I'm really glad I wrote that how-to on bundlebuilder in the MacPython FAQ because I got a chance to learn how it works. It's far from perfect, but there's smart people working on making it better. Here's that:

import bundlebuilder # add our SASL_PATH env variable in the startup script SASL_PART = """os.environ['SASL_PATH'] = os.path.join(libdir, 'sasl2')""" lines = bundlebuilder.BOOTSTRAP_SCRIPT.split('\n') lines[-2:-2] = [SASL_PART] bundlebuilder.BOOTSTRAP_SCRIPT = '\n'.join(lines) builder = bundlebuilder.AppBuilder( name='Albatross.app', standalone=1, mainprogram='Main.py', argv_emulation=0, excludeModules=[ 'MacOS', 'Carbon', 'StdSuites', 'aepack', 'aetools', 'aetypes', 'applesingle', 'macresource', 'macurl2path', 'macfs', 'gopherlib', 'ftplib', 'ic', 'icglue', 'ntpath', 'nturl2path', 'uu', ], includeModules=['encodings.__init__', 'encodings.idna', 'encodings.ascii', 'encodings.punycode' ], # should also arrange for libsasl, sasl2/gssapi plugin, and libdl # to be included here. libs = [ '/Library/Frameworks/Tk.Framework', '/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.Framework', ], iconfile='macosx/Albatross.icns' ) builder.setup() builder.build()

As you can see, I had to hack it a bit to get an environmental variable set in the application script. It's ugly, but it works.

Take care.

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2004-08-13

Fortran?!

Golly gee! I was just trying to be helpful...

Then the perl guru got all shirty. (Read the first three comments on that article.)

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