Questions tagged [activestate]

ActiveState is a software company which develops precompiled distros of Perl, Python, and Tcl as well as an IDE.

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Komodo Edit - How to modify the default "Find all functions" regex

In Komodo Edit 6.1 , there is a nice feature to find and highlight all the functions (navigation->Find all functions ctrl+F8). It searches based on a Regex to find all the functions, which is this : ^[ …
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Whatever happened to PerlScript?

My ActivePerl documentation has a section dedicated to this seemingly little-known technology. I guess that the technology didn't really catch on. A couple of questions: where would PerlScript be useful as a drop-in replacement for an equivalent…
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How can I obtain correct non-ASCII command-line arguments in ActiveState Perl?

Running the following command perl -e "for (my $i = 0; $i < length($ARGV[0]); $i++) {print ord(substr($ARGV[0], $i, 1)), qq{\n}; }" αβγδεζ on a Windows 7 cmd window with ActiveState Perl v5.14.2 produces the following…
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Why does Perl's bignum module give me a strange result to a power calculation?

Context: ActiveState Perl: This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 4 (v5.12.4) built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread >perl -Mbignum=l -e "print 2 ** 32" 4294967296 >perl -Mbignum=l -e "print -2 ** 32" -4294967296 Then I got to thinking, maybe I need…
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pil png activestate on windows 7 ZLIB (PNG/ZIP) support not available

I'm trying to port a python program from OS X to Windows 7. This program processes a png with tkinter eg self.logoImg = ImageTk.PhotoImage(Image.open('GrowthPathLogo.png')) The code is failing with IOError: decoder zip not available I've tried…
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Non-Greedy Capture between parens in TCL: #\( .*?\)

I'm trying to use ActiveState TCL on a windows PC to run the following TCL. looks like i'm doing a non-greedy match between #\(.*?\) and its matching greedy into the next statements... Any idea what i'm doing wrong or how to fix this? proc…
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Did ActiveState stop providing plain old MSI installer of Perl for Windows?

I have a Windows 10 PC. I want Perl. I found the following blog post on theitsite: https://community.activestate.com/t/new-msi-installer-for-activeperl/1626 "New MSI Installer for ActivePerl". I didn't understand from it how and where should I get…
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Django: setup.py install - access denied?

I have recently asked this question and this one Now i think I know the answer to my questions....it's all because i installed django using pypm... and something else is wrong! I did as they said, the first answer: start over, the 2nd answer: pydev…
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install_driver(mysql) failed: Attempt to reload DBD/mysql.pm aborted error in Bugzilla installation on Windows

I have installed Bugzilla on my windows system using this https://bugzilla.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing/windows.html link. Firstly, clone the https://github.com/bugzilla/bugzilla.git link to install bugzilla on system. git clone…
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python cannot see ActiveTcl after installation

First python cannot find _tkinter module: python3 -m _tkinter /Users/owner/.pyenv/versions/3.8.2/bin/python3: No module named _tkinter I tried installing ActiveTcl and it did successfully. However, my existing Python still cannot find tkinter How do…
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Does installing Perl modules require a paid license?

I need to work on a Perl script that has some tasks, like reading/writing Excel sheets, connection to an Oracle database, etc. First I used ActivePerl. On installing modules, ActivePerl threw an error: Authorization required 401 (I.e., it requires…
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For Tcl, is there an equivalent to perl's CPAN?

Given that the Tcl Wiki had a page titled "Why isn't there a Comprehensive Tcl Archive Network like Perl's CPAN?", it seems the short answer to this is "no". Is there however someplace with an approximation - web sites, or FTP sites, with tarballs…
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Perl ADO thinks printed output in stored procedure is an error!

First of all (in case this is important) I'm using ActiveState's Perl (v5.8.7 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread). I've just emerged from a three hour long debugging session, trying to find the source of an error. I found there was simply no error,…
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Is there a way in Perl to tell if a Perl process in Windows is using a specific file?

Background information: I have a Perl script converted to a EXE file, script.exe, that runs on Windows. Script.exe reads and will update at times to/from a configuration file, config.ini. Script.exe is either executed with a command-line argument…
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invalid argument when using TCOM from TCL script. ActiveTcl

I use ActiveStates TCL version 8.6.0.0 for Windows x64. In a script I call: package require tcom Tcom is included in the installation but I get the following error: couldn't load libary "C:/TCL/lib/tcom/tcom.dll": Invalid argument while…
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