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- Hi all,
- I finally got the Demo scripts by grabbing and unpacking the
- complete 1.3 source distribution. Of all the neat stuff in there, I
- found 12 scripts which actually run on PythonPPC out of the box. Three
- of these are in the "scripts" folder: fact, pi, and primes. All three
- are nice, clean, short code, with comments, and run right away. The
- others were in stdwin: several of these scripts work, and several others
- don't.
- The bulk of the Demo scripts are not suitable for newbies and/or
- Mac users because they suffer from some combination of the following:
-
- 1. requires command-line arguments
- 2. requires special hardware or non-included modules
- 3. only pertains to Unix
- 4. only pertains to networking stuff (ftp, sockets, etc.)
-
- ...in short, I can see that they are all highly relevant to the author,
- but maybe not all useful to the general newbie public. Lest I be thought
- just a whiner, I'm eager to lend a hand -- I plan to write some more
- general-interest newbie-learning type scripts as I learn, and I'll be
- posting them as I go.
-
- Detailed comments for each Demo subdirectory follow. Any comments are
- appreciated.
-
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-
- classes & comparisons:
- None of these seem to do anything; when I drop them on PythonPPC, the
- application launches and immediately quits. Upon examining the code, I
- find that they expect command-line arguments, but I can find no way to
- supply them.
-
- cwlib: ditto, but also not listed in the README.
-
- dns: looks like another Unix/networking/guru thing
-
- embed: useless without a C compiler
-
- ibrowse: useless without Emacs
-
- md5test: cryptic unless you know what "md5" is (READMEs don't tell)
-
- pdist: see comments for dns
-
- rpc: requires Sun
-
- scripts:
- eqfix: requires command-line parameter
- =) fact: actually works! Commented code! Nicely done.
- from: requires environment variables
- ftpstats: didn't even bother
- lpwatch: bombed for lack of posix
- makedir: immediate quit
- markov: ditto
- mboxconvert: didn't bother
- mkrcs: immediate quit
- morse: AttributeError: SndNewChannel (too bad, looked fun)
- mpzpi: ImportError: No module named mpz
- newslist: didn't bother
- =) pi: Ran! Nice short code! Good job.
- pp: ran, confusing, looks like it needs command line
- =) primes: see fact and pi (nice demo)
- script: ImportError: No module named select
- unbirthday: appeared to run; should pause on output
- update: funny lines (interesting, but useful...?)
- wh: ImportError: No module named which
-
- sgi: requires SGI
-
- sockets: no thanks (see dns)
-
- stdwin: mixed...
- cool:
- clock, FormTest, miniedit, python, RadioGroups,
- TestCSplit, TestFormSplit, TestSched, TestTextEdit
- crashes:
- jukebox, lpwin, microedit, TestDirList, wdiff
-
- threads: see sockets
-
- tkinter: ImportError: No module named Tkinter
- (I figured that; may get that separately later...)
-
- www: see threads
-
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- | Joseph J. Strout Department of Neuroscience, UCSD |
- | jstrout@ucsd.edu http://www-acs.ucsd.edu/~jstrout/ |
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