Re: [Visualpython-users] VPython Compatability

[Bruce S. <ba...@an...>]

--On Thursday, November 23, 2000, 10:30 PM +0000 Do...@ao... wrote:

> Are there any other releases / flavors of Python that VPYTHON is
> compatible  with? (eg Python 2.0, Stackless Python, Vyper etc)
> 
> Compatible in the sense that you can have them on the same machine as 
> VPython, not neccessarily at the same time.

Funny you should ask. About one minute before reading your note, I finished
making available a Visual package for Python 2.0 for Windows. See

	http://cil.andrew.cmu.edu/projects/visual

What you do is install regular Python 2.0 (presumably uninstalling other
versions of Python, I would guess, but I'm no expert), then unzip a zip
file that adds Visual, Numeric, the Scherer version of Idle, and
significantly improved documentation (in html rather than pdf format, with
much better indexing).

I went ahead and made the change to visual.graph to change the names gvbar
-> gvbars, ghbar -> ghbars, gdot -> gdots, and updated the demo programs
that use graphs (graphtest.py and gas.py). The graph module will still
accept the older names but prints a warning message that the names should
be changed. But let me know if you object to this change or have a better
idea for the names.

Still available on the web site is the old Python 1.5.2 stuff (1.5.2
modified to bind Tcl into it), but I would encourage people to move up to
Python 2.0. Ruth Chabay and I have been using Python 2.0 on Windows for a
while now and have seen no problems.

Bruce Sherwood