[Pythonmac-SIG] ctb module in MacPython 2.2.3 or 2.3.3

[Jens Miltner]

Am 07.04.2004 um 04:40 schrieb David Willcox:

> At 1:15 AM -0400 4/6/04, Francis Avila wrote:
>> On Apr 6, 2004, at 12:00 AM, David Willcox wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the reply, but OS9 and OSX are pretty substantially 
>>> different beasts. There doesn't seem to be a pySerial with the OS9 
>>> version of MacPython, and I doubt that anything from the OSX version 
>>> of Python would work on OS9.
>>
>> I see mentions of a mactty module in OS9's MacPython.  You may want 
>> to check that out.  However, it seems to be undocumented.
>> --
>> Francis Avila
>
> mactty looks like it might be useful, but it is just a wrapper for 
> ctb.  It presents an easier interface, but depends on ctb for the 
> actual I/O.
>
> But I've at least partially answered my original question.  I 
> discovered that ctb is present in the Classic version of 2.2.3 but not 
> the Carbon version.  There is no 2.3.3 Classic version.
>
> Apparently the communication tool box doesn't exist in Carbon.  I 
> wonder if has been replaced by something else.

Did you try whether you can use the classic module with the Carbon 
implementation?
CommToolbox has not replacement in Carbon, since any serial I/O is 
supposed to be done using "native" APIs at the C-level. Since Carbon 
apps running on classic mac OS can link & import classic symbols / 
libraries, the commtoolbox can be used from within Carbon apps when 
running on classic Mac OS. That's why I figured you might be able to 
use the ctb module in python 2.3.3 Carbon (when running on OS 9)...

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