Carbon Event Manager (Carbon.CarbonEvt module) - working?

[Arnaud Delobelle]

On 15 May 2012 20:55, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> In article
> <c4dc4a8f-52cc-4447-b199-dafcc296ee9c at e20g2000vbm.googlegroups.com>,
>  msmucr <msmucr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> i would like to ask you for some information regarding Carbon Event
>> Manager ( Carbon.CarbonEvt ) library in Python.
>> I need to recieve and work with few Carbon events in my program. I've
>> followed some examples on PyObjC site, but wasn't successful. I know,
>> that both Carbon library and this Python module is deprecated, but
>> frankly i didn't find any usable alternative except of writing of
>> something from scratch..
>> I ended on basic import of required objects from Carbon.CarbonEvt
>> module -
>> like "from Carbon.CarbonEvt import RegisterEventHotKey"
>> I tried it in Python 2.7.1 (standard distribution in OS X 10.7 Lion)
>> and Python 2.6.1 (standard Apple distribution in OS X 10.6).
>> Do I have something wrong or is it simply broken and unmaintained now?
>
> You may want to ask OS X specific questions on the macpython mailing
> list (http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/pythonmac-sig/). The
> main reason that these modules are deprecated (and have been removed in
> Python 3) is because they depend on obsolete APIs in OS X that are only
> available in 32-bit versions.  Apple has made it clear that they will
> not be made available as 64-bit and will eventually go away.  You should
> try to find ways not to use the Carbon model in your applications.  That
> said, you can use these modules, even with the Apple-supplied Pythons in
> OS X 10.6 and 10.7, if you force Python to run in 32-bit-mode.  For
> those Apple-supplied Pythons, see the Apple man page (man 1 python) for
> system Python specific ways to force 32-bit mode persistently.  Another
> way that should work for any OS X universal Python 2.7.x:
>
>    arch -i386 python2.7

This is what I have with system python 2.6:

$ cat ~/bin/python_32
#! /bin/bash
export VERSIONER_PYTHON_PREFER_32_BIT=yes
/usr/bin/python "$@"

I use it for wxpython, which only seems to work in 32 bit mode.  I
can't remember where I found it.  Maybe I read the man page?

-- 
Arnaud