[Pythonmac-SIG] In panther where are Python Carbon files Qd, Quickdraw, etc?

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Tue Nov 23 15:49:06 CET 2004


On Nov 23, 2004, at 4:42 PM, Louis Pecora wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 22, 2004, at 7:34 PM, Louis Pecora wrote:
>>
>>> I switched to Panther (archive and install) and installed MacPython  
>>> Addons.  But there are files missing.  I tried to use the Piddle  
>>> plotting library (which worked in Jaguar), but now Qd.py,  
>>> Quickdraw.py and a host of other files are 'missing' .   A search  
>>> shows that the older versions were archived in
>>> /Previous Systems/Previous System 1/Library/Frameworks/...blah  
>>> blah/python2.3/plat-mac/Carbon/  (whew!  what a pathname!), but no  
>>> new versions appear in my /Library or any other folders.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to reinstall them?  I really don't want to try  
>>> manually moving them.  I'd probably screw something up.  And I'm  
>>> probably missing other things, too.
>>>
>>> Any ideas appreciated.   I miss that plotting package.
>>
>>
>> Maybe you need to install the latest Xcode as well?  I sure have them  
>> here, on my laptop, which has a relatively untouched and fresh  
>> (formatted before install) installation of OS X 10.3 and Xcode.
>>
> I already have Xcode 1.5 installed (the latest, I think).  I did a  
> file search and they don't show up.  Where are your Qd.py, etc. files  
> located?  Maybe there's an option to install them from Xcode and I  
> missed that.

Standard place:

/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/ 
plat-mac/Carbon/Qd.py

Not sure whether it was your Xcode or OS X upgrade, but at least one of  
the two did the wrong thing.

-bob



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