Getting wxPython to work on a Mac

[Timothy Smith]

In article <m2ir3dqudm.fsf at cochabamba.cs.uu.nl>,
 Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl> wrote:

> >TS> I set PYTHONPATH to 
> >TS> System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5
> 
> Why would you do that?

Don't know, as it's not clear (to me) from the documentation whether 
PYTHONPATH has to include a path to the regular Python modules, or only 
to one's own modules. Just fishing here.

> >TS> The Python interpreter works OK, far as I can tell. wx sort of works, 
> >TS> but all the functionality is not there. For example, working through the 
> >TS> exercises in "WxPython in Action" by Noel Rappin, I find that while I 
> >TS> can create and display a frame, and create an app, stuff like 
> >TS> wx.MessageBox() just doesn't work.
> 
> >TS> The same exercises work just fine on a Python 2.5.1 installation on my 
> >TS> wife's Windows XP machine.
> 
> I tried the example (python_compare.py) and it just works, including the
> MessageBox, on Tiger with python 2.5.1. I run the in Terminal (pythonw
> python_compare.py) both with and without your PYTHONPATH.
> 
> How did you run the examples?

I tried them using just python and also pythonw. Same (lack of) results.

I will try going back to the OS X 10.5 distribution of Python. Will have 
to do a reinstall, I suppose.