a few questions about the Mac implementation

Russell E. Owen (owen@astro.washington.edu)
Tue, 21 Mar 1995 12:58:48 -0800

I'm trying to get started with Python on a Macintosh (which I get the
feeling isn't the standard implementation :)).

The FAQ directed me to an archive, but (despite claims to the contrary in
the FAW) the archive contained only the application, no libraries. I
suspect I can get the libraries from a unix archive, but is this the best
way? Will this include the Mac-specific libraries?

According to the library documentation, the sockets library is not totally
Mac-compatible (very unfortunate, though understandable). I suppose it's
too much to hope that the CGI part of that library works with Mac? I was
hoping to write MacHTTP CGIs in Python. An Apple Events library might also
do the trick, though I didn't see one.

More generally I'd be curious to know if anyone is successfully using
Python with the Mac. It looks rather daunting, since the Mac
implementation of Posix is so poor, and so many of the libraries seem to
be unix oriented.

-- Russell