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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