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pip install -U PySide error

December 16, 2020 Odhran Miss

Question or issue on macOS: Does anyone know how to avoid the following error when running pip install -U PySide as per the official website instructions here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PySide/#installing-pyside-on-a-mac-os-x-system

How can I minimize/maximize windows in macOS with the Cocoa API from a Python script?

December 16, 2020 James Cameron

Question or issue on macOS: How can I minimize/maximize windows in macOS from a Python script? On Windows, there’s a win32 api (the ShowWindow() function) that can do this. I’d like the macOS equivalent. I’d like to have a script be able to find a window from its title, then minimize or maximize it.

Segmentation fault and crashing when trying to import opencv

December 16, 2020 Aba Tayler

Question or issue on macOS: I have mac os x 10.9. I downloaded opencv-python using homebrew and I have both the python 2.7 and python 3.4 versions off of the main python site, downloaded the usual way with macs. I need to use opencv, but they do not have a download package for macs so […]

PIP install and Python path

December 15, 2020 Andrew Rocky

Question or issue on macOS: I am using pip install on a mac to get my python requirements for a django website.

Can executables made with py2app include other terminal scripts and run them?

December 15, 2020 Jeffrey Schneider

Question or issue on macOS: So I have a nice python app for OS X that is working great. It runs an external terminal script and I would like to include that in with my python app. Ideally, I’d be able to run py2app and have this script bundled up with it into the executable […]

Python in Emacs shell-mode turns on stty echo and breaks C-d

December 15, 2020 Andrew Rocky

Question or issue on macOS: When I run an interactive Python inside an Emacs shell buffer (M-x shell), it does two surprising things to the TTY. First, it turns on input echo, which persists after Python exits, until I do stty -echo. Secondly, it doesn’t accept C-d (or C-q C-d, i.e. ^D) as EOF: I […]

Multiprocessing with numpy makes Python quit unexpectedly on OSX

December 15, 2020 Ollie MC

Question or issue on macOS: I’ve run into a problem, where Python quits unexpectedly, when running multiprocessing with numpy. I’ve isolated the problem, so that I can now confirm that the multiprocessing works perfect when running the code stated below:

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