[Pythonmac-SIG] Message in Terminal

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Fri Aug 27 21:40:24 CEST 2004


On Aug 27, 2004, at 3:35 PM, João Leão wrote:

> When I run a Python script through Terminal (for ex: "python 
> somescript.py") terminal spits the following output:
>
> ## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component alias 
> of type (regR/carP/x!bt)
>
> This happens everytime I run a pygame script, although I haven't 
> noticed any problem besides the message.
> Today it happened again with another script that produced intended 
> output (a list of files in a directory) and it was really annoying to 
> see the above message appear between the first and second lines of the 
> output.
> It was obvious that the message is caused by subsequent code and not 
> at initialization as I thought before.
>
> I was able to insulate the line that caused (in this particular case) 
> the message. After importing CoreGraphics:
> img = CGImageImport(CGDataProviderCreateWithFilename(inputFile))
>
> Any ideas? Has someone seen this message before?
>
> I have the standard Python 2.3 running on Panther 10.3.5 but I 
> remember seeing this message at least since the first release of 
> Panther.
> May it have something to do with the old and new Python (before and 
> after Panther)? I remember that I didn't removed the old site-packages 
> when I upgraded.

This has nothing to do with Python.  Some kind of Quicktime component 
or plugin you installer isn't built correctly and causes that warning 
whenever Quicktime is initialized.

-bob


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