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Modified for installer and new names of various applets. Also cleaned

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<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Using Python 1.4 on the Macintosh</TITLE>
<TITLE>Using Python 1.5 on the Macintosh</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>Using Python 1.4 on the Macintosh</H1>
<H1>Using Python 1.5 on the Macintosh</H1>
<HR>
This document is an introduction to using Python on the Apple
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This should give you a text window with an informative version string
and a prompt, something like the following:
<PRE>
Python 1.4 (Oct 27 1996) [CW PPC w/GUSI]
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
Python 1.5 (#0 Aug 27, 1997) [CW PPC w/GUSI MSL]
Copyright 1991-1997 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
&gt;&gt;&gt;
</PRE>
The version string tells you the version of Python, whether it was
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exiting) after a script has terminated normally,
<li> for every module imported a line is printed telling you where the
module was loaded from,
<li> do not print the values of expressions executed as statements in
an interactive python (obsolete),
<li> do not buffer stdout and stderr,
<li> print some debugging output during the parsing phase,
<li> keep the output window open when a script terminates.
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location in the system folder. In this preferences file it remembers
the default module search path and the default settings for the
runtime options. The preferences are settable via
<CODE>EditPythonPrefs</CODE>. For PPC python this is a standalone
<CODE>EditPythonPrefs</CODE>. For PPC/cfm68k python this is a standalone
program living in the main Python folder, for 68K python it is a
script in the <CODE>Scripts</CODE> folder. <p>
script in the <CODE>Mac:Scripts</CODE> folder. <p>
The interface to edit the preferences is rather clunky for the current
release. <p>
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AppleScript applet (and completely different from a Java
applet). Applets are currently supported on PowerPC macintoshes and on
68K macintoshes if you use the CFM68K version of the interpreter,
and are created using the <CODE>mkapplet</CODE> program. You create an
applet by dropping the python source script onto mkapplet.
and are created using the <CODE>BuildApplet</CODE> program. You create an
applet by dropping the python source script onto BuildApplet.
<a href="example2.html">Example 2</a> is a more involved applet
with its own resource file, etc. <p>
@ -320,7 +322,7 @@ it is not self-sufficient, so distributing it to a machine without an
installed Python interpreter will not work: it needs the shared python
execution engine <CODE>PythonCore</CODE>, and probably various modules
from the Lib and PlugIns folders. Distributing it to a machine that does
have a Python system (of the same release and architecture) will work. <p>
have a Python system will work. <p>
<h2>Customizing applets</h2>
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Python attempts to keep its preferences file up-to-date even when you
move the Python folder around, etc. If this fails the effect will be
that Python cannot start or, worse, that it does work but it cannot find
any standard modules. In this case, start Python examine <code>sys.path</code>.
any standard modules. In this case, start Python and examine <code>sys.path</code>.
If it is incorrect remove any Python preferences file from the system
folder and start the interpreter <em>while the interpreter sits in the main
Python folder</em>. This will regenerate the preferences file. <p>
Python folder</em>. This will regenerate the preferences file. You may also
have to run the ConfigurePython applet again. <p>
<h2>Where to go from here</h2>
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<HR>
<A HREF="http://www.cwi.nl/~jack">Jack Jansen</A>,
<A HREF="mailto:jack@cwi.nl">jack@cwi.nl</A>, 20-Nov-1996.
<A HREF="mailto:jack@cwi.nl">jack@cwi.nl</A>, 27-Aug-1997.
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