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diff --git a/Mac/Demo/using.html b/Mac/Demo/using.html index f440273..bb2fdd5 100644 --- a/Mac/Demo/using.html +++ b/Mac/Demo/using.html @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ <HTML> <HEAD> -<TITLE>Using Python 1.4 on the Macintosh</TITLE> +<TITLE>Using Python 1.5 on the Macintosh</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> -<H1>Using Python 1.4 on the Macintosh</H1> +<H1>Using Python 1.5 on the Macintosh</H1> <HR> This document is an introduction to using Python on the Apple @@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ interpreter in interactive mode by double-clicking its icon: <p> This should give you a text window with an informative version string and a prompt, something like the following: <PRE> -Python 1.4 (Oct 27 1996) [CW PPC w/GUSI] -Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam +Python 1.5 (#0 Aug 27, 1997) [CW PPC w/GUSI MSL] +Copyright 1991-1997 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam >>> </PRE> The version string tells you the version of Python, whether it was @@ -189,6 +189,8 @@ The options modify the interpreters behaviour in the following way: exiting) after a script has terminated normally, <li> for every module imported a line is printed telling you where the module was loaded from, +<li> do not print the values of expressions executed as statements in +an interactive python (obsolete), <li> do not buffer stdout and stderr, <li> print some debugging output during the parsing phase, <li> keep the output window open when a script terminates. @@ -279,9 +281,9 @@ The python interpreter keeps a preferences file in the standard location in the system folder. In this preferences file it remembers the default module search path and the default settings for the runtime options. The preferences are settable via -<CODE>EditPythonPrefs</CODE>. For PPC python this is a standalone +<CODE>EditPythonPrefs</CODE>. For PPC/cfm68k python this is a standalone program living in the main Python folder, for 68K python it is a -script in the <CODE>Scripts</CODE> folder. <p> +script in the <CODE>Mac:Scripts</CODE> folder. <p> The interface to edit the preferences is rather clunky for the current release. <p> @@ -310,8 +312,8 @@ An applet is a fullblown application written in Python, similar to an AppleScript applet (and completely different from a Java applet). Applets are currently supported on PowerPC macintoshes and on 68K macintoshes if you use the CFM68K version of the interpreter, -and are created using the <CODE>mkapplet</CODE> program. You create an -applet by dropping the python source script onto mkapplet. +and are created using the <CODE>BuildApplet</CODE> program. You create an +applet by dropping the python source script onto BuildApplet. <a href="example2.html">Example 2</a> is a more involved applet with its own resource file, etc. <p> @@ -320,7 +322,7 @@ it is not self-sufficient, so distributing it to a machine without an installed Python interpreter will not work: it needs the shared python execution engine <CODE>PythonCore</CODE>, and probably various modules from the Lib and PlugIns folders. Distributing it to a machine that does -have a Python system (of the same release and architecture) will work. <p> +have a Python system will work. <p> <h2>Customizing applets</h2> @@ -394,10 +396,11 @@ set) the end-of-line convention used in a file. <p> Python attempts to keep its preferences file up-to-date even when you move the Python folder around, etc. If this fails the effect will be that Python cannot start or, worse, that it does work but it cannot find -any standard modules. In this case, start Python examine <code>sys.path</code>. +any standard modules. In this case, start Python and examine <code>sys.path</code>. If it is incorrect remove any Python preferences file from the system folder and start the interpreter <em>while the interpreter sits in the main -Python folder</em>. This will regenerate the preferences file. <p> +Python folder</em>. This will regenerate the preferences file. You may also +have to run the ConfigurePython applet again. <p> <h2>Where to go from here</h2> @@ -405,7 +408,7 @@ The next section to check out is the <a href="index.html">annotated sample progr <HR> <A HREF="http://www.cwi.nl/~jack">Jack Jansen</A>, -<A HREF="mailto:jack@cwi.nl">jack@cwi.nl</A>, 20-Nov-1996. +<A HREF="mailto:jack@cwi.nl">jack@cwi.nl</A>, 27-Aug-1997. </BODY> </HTML> |