[Pythonmac-SIG] Message in Terminal

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Fri Aug 27 22:12:59 CEST 2004


On Aug 27, 2004, at 3:45 PM, João Leão wrote:

>
>>
>> On Aug 27, 2004, at 3:35 PM, João Leão wrote:
>>
>>> When I run a Python script through Terminal (for ex: "python 
>>> somescript.py") terminal spits the following output:
>>>
>>> ## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component 
>>> alias of type (regR/carP/x!bt)
>>>
>>> This happens everytime I run a pygame script, although I haven't 
>>> noticed any problem besides the message.
>>> Today it happened again with another script that produced intended 
>>> output (a list of files in a directory) and it was really annoying 
>>> to see the above message appear between the first and second lines 
>>> of the output.
>>> It was obvious that the message is caused by subsequent code and not 
>>> at initialization as I thought before.
>>>
>>> I was able to insulate the line that caused (in this particular 
>>> case) the message. After importing CoreGraphics:
>>> img = CGImageImport(CGDataProviderCreateWithFilename(inputFile))
>>>
>>> Any ideas? Has someone seen this message before?
>>>
>>> I have the standard Python 2.3 running on Panther 10.3.5 but I 
>>> remember seeing this message at least since the first release of 
>>> Panther.
>>> May it have something to do with the old and new Python (before and 
>>> after Panther)? I remember that I didn't removed the old 
>>> site-packages when I upgraded.
>>
>> This has nothing to do with Python.  Some kind of Quicktime component 
>> or plugin you installer isn't built correctly and causes that warning 
>> whenever Quicktime is initialized.
>
> Thanks for the quick reply.
> Just to see if I get it clearer: do these modules "interact" somehow 
> with QuickTime and that's the cause of the output?

CoreGraphics uses Quicktime to do import/export of various graphics 
formats.

-bob


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