[PyQt] win32api.LoadKeyboardLayout; any solutions for OSX?

Fri Mar 20 13:17:28 EDT 2015

Thanks again. Macports didn't have the latest pyobjc, but pip updated my 
installation to the fixed version. Problem solved.
Tim
On 20/03/2015 00:18, michael h wrote:
> Did you see this:
>> https://bitbucket.org/ronaldoussoren/pyobjc/issue/95/attributeerror-in-some-cases-when-checking
>>>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Timothy W. Grove <tim_grove at sil.org 
> <mailto:tim_grove at sil.org>> wrote:
>> A personal reply to my question sent me to the following link:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23729704/change-osx-keyboard-layoutinput-source-programmatically-via-terminal-or-appl.
> I seem to have found a solution that worked using PyObjC.
>> I'm currently using Python 3.3 installed via macports, and I
> installed the appropriate ports for my setup (py33-pyobjc,
> py33-pyobjc-cocoa).
>> For my import statement:
>> from AppKit import NSTextInputContext
>> To find the current keyboard being used:
>> ic = NSTextInputContext.new()
> current_keyboard = ic.selectedKeyboardInputSource()
>> To list the currently available keyboards:
>> keyboards = ic.keyboardInputSources()
>> To change the current keyboard (to 'Arabic', for example):
>> ic.setValue_forKey_('com.apple.keylayout.Arabic',
> 'selectedKeyboardInputSource')
>>> Now, that is the good news! This all worked great in my source
> code, but as an app bundle (created with cx_Freeze 4.3.2) it
> wouldn't run at all. I'll include the full error trace at the end
> of this email, but the problems seem to start with the import of
> AppKit and end with objc/_lazyimport.py.
>> I'm not sure if this points to a 'bug' in objc or something else
> which I've left out of my setup routine, but if anyone has any
> ideas, I would be interested to hear from you.
>> Best regards,
> Timothy Grove
>>>> On 05/03/2015 14:51, Timothy W. Grove wrote:
>> I was looking for a way to change keyboard layouts from within a
>> Python 3 / PyQt4 application. Win32api.LoadKeyboardLayout has
>> come to my rescue on Windows, but is anyone aware of a
>> cross-platform or OSX specific solution for Apple Mac? Thanks for
>> any suggestions.
>>>> Best regards,
>> Tim
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/cx_Freeze/initscripts/Console3.py",
> line 27, in <module>
>> exec(code, m.__dict__)
>> File "soosl.py", line 6, in <module>
>> File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/importlib/_bootstrap.py",
> line 1565, in _find_and_load
>> return _find_and_load_unlocked(name, import_)
>> File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/importlib/_bootstrap.py",
> line 1532, in _find_and_load_unlocked
>> loader.load_module(name)
>> File
> "/Users/timothygrove/Documents/workspace/SooSL/mainwindow.py",
> line 19, in <module>
>> File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/importlib/_bootstrap.py",
> line 1565, in _find_and_load
>> return _find_and_load_unlocked(name, import_)
>> File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/importlib/_bootstrap.py",
> line 1532, in _find_and_load_unlocked
>> loader.load_module(name)
>> File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/AppKit/__init__.py",
> line 9, in <module>
>> import Foundation
>> File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/importlib/_bootstrap.py",
> line 1565, in _find_and_load
>> return _find_and_load_unlocked(name, import_)
>> File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/importlib/_bootstrap.py",
> line 1532, in _find_and_load_unlocked
>> loader.load_module(name)
>> File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/Foundation/__init__.py",
> line 9, in <module>
>> import CoreFoundation
>> File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/importlib/_bootstrap.py",
> line 1565, in _find_and_load
>> return _find_and_load_unlocked(name, import_)
>> File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/importlib/_bootstrap.py",
> line 1532, in _find_and_load_unlocked
>> loader.load_module(name)
>> File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/CoreFoundation/__init__.py",
> line 20, in <module>
>> }, ())
>> File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/objc/_lazyimport.py",
> line 82, in __init__
>> if nm.startswith(pfx):
>> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'
>> logout
>>> [Process completed]
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