[Pythonmac-SIG] MacPython 2.1 release candidate

[Jack Jansen]

Recently, Russell E Owen <owen@astro.washington.edu> said:
> At 11:49 PM +0200 2001-04-27, Jack Jansen wrote:
> >There are new final candidate installers in
> >ftp://www.cwi.nl/ftp/jack/python/mac/newer .
> 
> This URL didn't work for me. I suspect the correct one is:
>     http://www.cwi.nl/ftp/jack/python/mac/newer

You're absolutely right. Silly me...

> P.S. Just for the heck of it I tried some code that uses file events 
> (which are broken in 2.0 and so I didn't expect them to work in 2.1). 
> In 2.0 the callback function associated with a Tk file event is 
> silently never called. The same code 2.1 gives a runtime error when I 
> try to set up the file event:
> 
>        Tkinter.tkinter.READABLE, self.__readSocket)
>    TypeError: object is not callable: None
> 
> This is probably a bit of an improvement -- no more silent failure.

Yes, this is a side-effect of the fix I made. I would have expected a
NameError, though, on app.createfilehandler(). Oh well, as you say,
this is better than it was.
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