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Release notes for MacPython 1.5b3
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Open Issues and bugs:
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- Packages ("dotted import") appears to have problems for the cfm68k version
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of MacPython. Please report anything of interest you find as soon as possible,
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preferrably to pythonmac-sig@python.org.
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- import test.autotest fails the test_strftime test on %%. This is a bug in the
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MetroWerks C strftime() routine. Test_re takes a loooooooooong time, by the way.
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- Tk menus may or may not work. Please let me know.
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- Occasionally Python becomes non-reactive to mouseclicks after switching it to
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background and foreground again. If you experience this please let me know,
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explaining the circumstances.
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- Printing a NumPy "array([1.2])" may cause a crash in cfm68k-Python. If you have
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a 68k machine, a MetroWerks debugger, time and interest in NumPy: please let me
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know and I'll ask you to help hunting this bug.
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Changes since the previous version:
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Here are the mac-specific changes since MacPython 1.4, with end-user-visible
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changes near the top and API changes and other things that are developer-only
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more to the bottom. Changes marked with a [*] are new changes since
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1.5a3 (there has not been a MacPython 1.5b1). And, of course, all Guido's
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1.5-final changes are incorporated.
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- Moved Mac:Lib:toolbox and scripting to lib-toolbox and lib-scripting, analogous
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to Guido's changes. Initial sys.path settings reflect this change [*]
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- Added cPickle and cStringIO modules [*]
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- Balloon help in set-preferences dialog and EditPythonPrefs
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- An interface to the Help Maganer has been added
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- New modules "preferences" and "pythonprefs" which allow access to
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Python preferences and implements a general preference-handling
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framework. New EditPythonPrefs uses this.
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- Applescript suite modules are now in a separate Mac:Lib:scripting
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folder
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- Most modules now export their type objects
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- MacOS.SysBeep() and MacOS.GetTicks() added
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- sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix are now set correctly
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- Installation is now through an installer
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- mkapplet and MkPluginAliases have been renamed to BuildApplet and
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ConfigurePython
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- Applescript classes and properties are now exported by suites. Very
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sketchy documentation added to applescript.html
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- Tkinter now uses tcl/tk 8.0
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- imports should be faster due to caching path information
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- Generated suites now live in Mac:Lib:scripting
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- Added zlib module
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- Tkinter setfilehandler() did not work for sockets, fixed
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- "Delay console window" option didn't work, fixed. Also check out the
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quietconsole.py module
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- Menu bar is restored (if needed) when keeping console open after
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exit
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- Influencing command-. and event processing (formerly MacOS.SetYield
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and MacOS.SetScheduleTimes) has been changed, see the manual
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- FrameWork (or your own windowing code) can use asynchronous
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callbacks to keep user interface responsive during long computations
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- Module to interface to Internet Config added
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- Module calldll added that allows calling of arbitrary C routines
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from MacOS toolboxes
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- gdbm module added
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- ctb error handling fixed, and some memory leaks plugged
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- Various of the documentation files in Mac:Demo have been updated
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- MacOS.string_id_to_buffer is a new hack: the number you have to
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add to the id() of a string object to get the (data) memory address
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- MacOS.splash() double-free fixed
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- macfs.FSSpec.as_pathname() was incorrect for disk toplevel folders
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- QT.NewMovieFromFile has an extra parameter and an extra return value
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- EasyDialogs.ProgressBar has changed both in layout and interface
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- FrameWork.Application has a new cleanup() method which asks all windows
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to close themselves.
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- Loading of PYC resources from the application greatly speeded up,
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especially for CDROM based applications
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- interrupt check/eventloop only entered 10 times per second, giving
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big speedup
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- Allow any object (file, folder, disk) to be dropped on an applet
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- Twit resource number conflict with debuggee fixed
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- sys.path preference can now be longer than 255 chars
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- cfmfile module allows parsing and merging of CFRG resources
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- PythonFAT and PythonApplet are now fat (PPC/CFM68K) applications, so
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applets can be moved between architectures.
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- Twit resource number conflict with debuggee fixed
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- mkapplet now uses a progress bar in stead of print statements
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- unshar made a bit more mac-friendly (input output dialogs)
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- img: added png, xbm, bmp support
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- img: jpeg now uses IJG v6 library
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- img: import of imagefile support modules delayed until needed
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- img: better error handling for truncated images and such
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- img: imgop.unpack() can unpack formats with multiple pixels per byte
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- build numbers work and are maintained in macbuildno.h by fullbuild.py
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- We now use CW Pro 1, with multitarget projects and such goodies
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- fixed xx plugin project for cfm68k
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- All files updated to new Py_ naming convention
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- Toolbox modules regenerated from new Universal Headers
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- nfullpath() merged into PyMac_GetFullPath()
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- Added support for Metrowerks profiler
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- Standard MW/MSL runtime libraries used in stead of homegrown version
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- Allow any object (file, folder, disk) to be dropped on an applet
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- Malloc now returns cache-line-aligned memory on PPC, which speeds
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things up, especially on a 604. Dictionaries put this to good use.
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- statically linked pythons won't inadvertantly load .slb modules
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- Removed dependencies on PLStringFuncs and/or StdCLib
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- Project "segment" structure changed to more-or-less follow folder
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structure
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- fullbuild redesigned
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- Added PyMac_Initialize() call, for use by embedding programs.
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