[Pythonmac-SIG] Printing Patch

[Richard Gordon]

At 08:09 -0700 09/30/1999, Joseph J. Strout wrote:
>>1. At some point, I believe that it starts looking for :Mac:Tools: 
>>FontSettings.pyc and since this wasn't part of my path when I 
>>originally compiled all, I didn't have a .pyc.
>
>Wait.  My patch certainly doesn't look for this... it must be when 
>you ran BuildIDE.py?  But this doesn't need any .pyc's; it 
>automatically recompiles from the .py files.  Do you still have the 
>traceback it generated?

Yes, I think it occurred during BuildIDE.py and, no, I didn't save 
the traceback. If I ran BuildIDE.pyc, would this cause it to want 
.pyc files (I might have done that)?

>>I added the directory and ran compileall.py again, but then I ran 
>>into problems because it started trying to find things in 
>>:Mac:Tools:Mac:Tools:, so I had to remove :Mac:Tools: from my path 
>>to make it happy.
>
>Hmm... FWIW, I've never run compileall.py, nor did I change the 
>default path.  I'm at a loss to explain the problems you saw here.

The pathing variable is set to:
basePath = string.join(string.split(sys.path[1],':')[:-1],':') + 
':Mac:Tools:IDE:'

So if :Mac:Tools:IDE: is already in the sys.path, it gets confused 
(it wouldn't have been an issue except for the gymnastics under #1, 
above.

>
>>3. I figured it out on my own, but you might want to mention in the 
>>instructions that the patched PythonIDE.py script still needs to be 
>>dropped on BuildApplet to actually get things ready to run normally.
>
>Hmm, no, I never had to do this.  I just quit the IDE, double-click 
>BuildIDE.py, and it rebuilds the PythonIDE applet for me.  Did you 
>do this step?  If not, it could explain both problems 1 and 3.

I did do this, but just wound up with PythonIDE.py. Again I might 
have run BuildIDE.pyc if that makes any difference.


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