Re: Pyla on OS X

[Daniel E.Markle <lexicon@seul.org>]

I'm trying to get Pyla working on Panther.  I've installed the full  
batteries included tk package and the MacPython panther supplement with  
the tkinter binary.  Pyla works fine, comes up with a gui and  
everything, until I enter a valid server hostname and restart.  Then,  
whenever I start pyla again it hangs with nothing coming up, then after  
about 5 minutes, it spits out this error:

Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1345, in __call__
    return self.func(*args)
  File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 456, in callit
    func(*args)
  File "pyla.py", line 869, in startup_actions
    th_update_all()
  File "pyla.py", line 527, in th_update_all
    if status.update_status() and queue.update_status():
  File "pyla.py", line 57, in update_status
    (faxstatus,msg) = hyla.getstatus()
  File "/Users/syntax/Program Installers/pyla/hylaproto.py", line 127,  
in getstatus
    self.ftp.retrlines('LIST status',self.callback)
  File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/ftplib.py", line 396, in retrlines
    conn = self.transfercmd(cmd)
  File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/ftplib.py", line 345, in transfercmd
    return self.ntransfercmd(cmd, rest)[0]
  File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/ftplib.py", line 334, in ntransfercmd
    resp = self.sendcmd(cmd)
  File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/ftplib.py", line 241, in sendcmd
    return self.getresp()
  File  
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/ftplib.py", line 212, in getresp
    raise error_temp, resp
error_temp: 425 Cannot build data connection: Connection timed out.

Then the gui comes up, but without the normal connection information  
and/or job list.

This same codebase is working fine on Linux and Windows XP  
workstations, connecting to the same server, leading me to believe it's  
a Panther issue.  I'll see if I can give it a try on a Jaguar box here  
later and see if I have better results.

On Nov 12, 2003, at 1:47 PM, Adam Augustine wrote:
> Maybe. The version of Python included in Mac OS X (10.2 anyway) is,  
> well, incomplete (missing tkinter support as well as other things) and  
> old (version 2.2 I think). You need later and more complete versions  
> to get pyla to work properly.
--
Daniel E. Markle