[Pythonmac-SIG] PyObjC - Apple sample code

[Christopher Barker]

And you really don't want to use easy_install amymore, either. Try pip.

I see the appeal of an Apple-supplied python, but Apple has never properly
supported it ever since OS-X 10.1.....

-CHB




On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 5:19 PM Glyph <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:

> Relying on the system Python for this sort of stuff has always guaranteed
> you'd have an out-of-date version of all of your dependencies.
>
> The availability of wheels (thanks again Ronald!!!) for pyobjc means that
> you don't need the biggest impediment to users installing stuff, which is a
> C compiler.  If you're building stuff for distribution to non-technical
> folks, build it with your own version of python (3) and ship it with
> py2app, not by copying scripts around.
>
> If there are things that make this more painful than just copying
> individual scripts, it's probably best to figure out how to get those
> addressed with the PyPA community.
>
> -glyph
>
> > On Apr 28, 2017, at 4:20 AM, Ben Byram-Wigfield <ben.bw at me.com> wrote:
> >
> > I ran the installer package for the latest python 2.7, and then used
> easy_install to install PyObjC.
> > I get the same errors on two separate Macs. What should I do to fix the
> installation?
> >
> > Does Apple not have plans to include (all of) the latest PyObjC? That’s
> rather sad. The reason I was attracted to creating ObjC python scripts was
> that they could run on any Mac.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ben
> >
> >
> >> On 28 Apr 2017, at 08:07, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 27 Apr 2017, at 10:17, Ben Byram-Wigfield <ben.bw at me.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I tried the repository browser there, and the version of
> parse_page_contents.py still doesn’t work for me. I’m using the latest
> downloaded versions of python 2.7 and PyObjC. I also tried using the
> default OS X versions.
> >>> The errors are in the attached file.
> >>>
> >> The PyObjC 3.2 error at the top of the file seems to indicate that your
> Python installation is broken, PyObjC imports the stdlib io module and that
> causes and error.
> >>
> >> The PyObjC 2.5 error is due to general brokeness of the system
> installation of PyObjC. PyObjC 2.5 is ancient and not something I support
> anymore, furthermore (IIRC) Apple doesn’t ship all of PyObjC. The error
> you’re getting indicates that the framework wrappers are incomplete.
> >>
> >> BTW. If you are new to Python I’d look into using Python 3.6 instead,
> both because that has less change to run into problems due to interference
> between the system install of Python 2.7 and a manual installation, and
> because the Python community is moving ever faster to Python 3.
> >>
> >> Ronald
> >>
> >
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