[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Panther - Python and Quartz

[David Eppstein]

In article 
<r01050400-1026-2DD8BC11A60811D78EAF003065D5E7E4@[10.0.0.23]>,
 Just van Rossum <just at letterror.com> wrote:

> > I have just looked at the description of OS X 10.3 (Panther) at
> > MacCentral ( http://maccentral.macworld.com ). One line caught my
> > attention: " the ability to access Quartz graphics from Python
> > programs"
> > 
> > I went through the panther preview at Apple but did not see any
> > mention of what this capability really means. I am sure we will find
> > out in the fullness of time, but if any group has some inside
> > information it would be this one.
> 
> Interesting, especially since we've been having access to (a subset of)
> Quartz since the introduction of the (Carbon.)CG module, which was
> around 2.2. Would they mean something else?

And would it have something to do with PyObjC guru bbum becoming 
employed by Apple?  Or maybe not, since
http://www.pycs.net/bbum/2003/05/20.html
says he's doing something other than Python GUI connectivity.

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David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science