🌐 Mailman 3 September 2009 - Pythonmac-SIG - python.org

Help wanted in installing IDLE in Mac
by Ahmed Shamim Sept. 8, 2009

Sept. 8, 2009

Hi there, I'm really in a deep shit. In my class, I am just falling behind. I am trying every way to install IDLE in my macbook (version OS X 10.5.8 and Intel core 2 duo) It gets installed, but when I double click IDLE app, it just seems like opening something, but does not open anything... pls help. Shamim

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py2app on Snow Leopard?
by Russell E. Owen Sept. 3, 2009

Sept. 3, 2009

Has anyone tried py2app on Snow Leopard, and if so, how well does it work? I'm trying to release programs that are compatible at with 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6, and don't want to upgrade my own OS from 10.5 prematurely. I'm willing to do some experiments and report back, but I'd rather learn what I can first. -- Russell

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Can I set an environment variable with py2app?
by Christopher Barker Sept. 1, 2009

Sept. 1, 2009

Hi folks, I was using the Peppy editor, and it's spell checker relies on PyEnchant, which uses ctypes to use the enchant lib. I am using a macports enchant, so I had an environment variable set so that PyEnchant could find it: export PYENCHANT_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib/libenchant.dylib This worked just great when I started Peppy from the command line, but when I started it from an application bundle, it failed, which I'm pretty sure is because apps started in bundles don't have the shell's environment variables. I think there is a way to set a "global" environment variable in a plist somewhere, but I think it might be better to set it in the App bundle -- is there a way to do that? For the moment, I've hacked the enchant module to look in the macports location, but I don't know if the maintainer will want to make that a permanent change. If he does, what would be the path to a fink enchant lib? we might as well add that too! -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception Chris.Barker(a)noaa.gov

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[PATCH] macholib better exclude
by Cezary Krzyżanowski Sept. 1, 2009

Sept. 1, 2009

Hello! I've been fighting my way through py2app and trying to exclude QtSomething_debug libraries and been unable to do it via py2app -E QtCore_debug. I'm sending a patch to macholib, which makes excludes work in a sane way: 1. There was a exclude finding loop but it returned the filename when the file was found in excludes 2. Moved the checking loop at the top --- if someone want's to exclude some system or other important files --- he probably already knows their importance if he dug deep to find them 3. Make it possible to add just the name of excluded file/lib, not the whole path <wishful thinking> * make py2app understand exclude option --- now only manually supplying python setup.py py2app -E works * make excludes regexps * get py2app recipes the possibility to work in all steps of building the bundle, not only in the module resolution (for example I want to exclude a library which is found out late in py2app when calling PythonStandalone); another filter hook for let's say binary files produces while running PythonStandalone would rock my socks of!! </wishful thinking> Czarek

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