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Poser Python Scripting F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2024 Sep 18 2:50 am)

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Subject: Possible to use Python 2.3 with ProPack?

rrkknight3 opened this issue on Feb 26, 2004 · 4 posts
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rrkknight3 ( ) posted Thu, 26 February 2004 at 5:42 AM · edited Tue, 19 November 2024 at 9:26 AM

I keep bumping into unmodern things in ProPack's Python and would like, if it is possible, to replace the 1.5 version with the current one. I've looked a little at the various pieces of Poser Python (DLL's and such) and don't see the obvious spot (other than just dropping a newer pythonxxx.dll in. If someone has already solved this, please let me know.

WeirdJuice ( ) posted Thu, 26 February 2004 at 9:18 AM

We've been looking at exactly the same possibility to improve ProPack performance on our products. Apart from updating the dll in the main Poser directory its likely that ProPack would also benefit from updating the files in the "RuntimePythonDLLs" and "RuntimePythonLibs" directories, especially the older and flakier Tk/Tcl version 8.0. Bill Weird Juice Software

nruddock ( ) posted Sat, 28 February 2004 at 4:17 PM

Most likely to cause problems are the changes between 1.5.2 and 2.0 in the C interface
Quote from What's New in Python 2.0, 11 Extending/Embedding Changes

"The version number of the Python C API was incremented, so C extensions compiled for 1.5.2 must be recompiled in order to work with 2.0. On Windows, it's not possible for Python 2.0 to import a third party extension built for Python 1.5.x due to how Windows DLLs work, so Python will raise an exception and the import will fail."

A minor irritation would be the fact that the poser.exe of ProPack explicitly refers to python15.dll (any replacement could be renamed to suit), but in light of the need to have the poser module recompiled to work with the newer Python, it would seem to be irrelevant.
For anyone who really wants to try this, you might be able to fixup the dll references with a hex editor (a whole bunch of caveats apply, so don't try this at home unless you know what your doing), but again it seems unlikely to work for the reason above.

ockham ( ) posted Mon, 01 March 2004 at 5:35 PM

I tried the renaming trick once, but it didn't work. There are some "magic numbers" in the DLLs that have to match up properly.

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