[PythonCAD] install pythoncad from source

[John Griessen]

"You obviouly have no idea"

"surprisingly it's
called 'pythoncad'  . . . . apt-get install pythoncad"

That gave the same syptom of not accessing pygtk completely.  It was ver. 19.



 >>> import PythonCAD
 >>> sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/python23.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.3', 
'/usr/lib/python2.3/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk', 
'/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages', 
'/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/FontTools', 
'/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Numeric', 
'/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/PIL', 
'/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0', 
'/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/vtk_python']
 >>>

still no pythoncad on the list...
still have a broken install

select does not work as advertised and these messages show at the shell:

  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/PythonCAD/Interface/Gtk/gtkimage.py", 
line 401, in da_general_event
     handler(gtkimage, widget, event, _tool)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/PythonCAD/Interface/Gtk/gtkedit.py", 
line 77, in select_motion_notify
     widget.window.draw_rectangle(gc, gtk.FALSE, _xmin, _ymin, _rw, _rh)
NameError: global name 'gc' is not defined

The gtk2.0 installed has this date:
ll /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk
total 1212
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    3946 2004-11-22 05:36 __init__.py

debian packages:
python2.3-gtk2               2.4.1-2
libgtk2.0-0                  2.4.14-2
libgtk2.0-bin                2.4.14-2
libgtk2.0-common             2.4.14-2
libgtk2.0-dev                2.4.14-2

I have no  python2.2-gtk2  installed, and that may be a problem.
the notes for install say python2.2 and later and 2.3 may be "too new"
to still be compatible.

John Griessen