[Pythonmac-SIG] modifying setup.py: py2exe -> py2app

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 1, 2005, at 10:48 PM, Charles Hartman wrote:


>
> On Feb 1, 2005, at 9:53 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> The list of options py2app will accept is shown when you do "python 
>> setup.py py2app --help".  These can be converted into setup.py speak 
>> by replacing the hyphens with underscores and passing them to setup() 
>> in an options dictionary (many of the examples do this).
>
> I'm in the same boat with C. Jerdonek, though I suspect I know less. 
> So when I saw this passage, I hung, as always, on every word from 
> py2app's own master. Aha! I said.
>
> And I do find that syntax in two places: the setup.py files for 
> PyTestPlugin and wxGlade each have two *nested* dictionaries, which I 
> understand *almost* well enough to use it. Two others (TinyTinyEdit 
> and aliens) have a simple dict that maps a script to a plist. And the 
> setup.py for superdoodle is one I really want to understand and can't 
> quite:
>         setup(
>             name="superdoodle",
>             **{buildstyle : ['superdoodle.py']}
>         )
> where buildstyle has been set according to platform.
>
> But I for one am still having trouble duplicating and extending this 
> syntax for my own files. (Nothing in the Distutils docs on any of 
> this, of course.) I think this is where some of us need a 
> fill-in-the-gap tutorial. Any mercy welcome.

See http://docs.python.org/ref/calls.html -- it explains how this 
syntax works.

-bob