[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Novice Just Starting

[Bill Bumgarner]

There is a third flavor of python for OS X;   the fink build of python. 
   It includes Tk support (among other things).

See fink.sourceforge.net for more information -- there is 10.2 specific 
installation instructions (and Fink works very well under 10.2).

To install X:

     fink install xfree86-rootless-threaded

Then, choose your favorite desktop environment or window manager.  Both 
KDE and Gnome are available.  Personally, I chose blackbox-rootless...

     fink install blackbox-rootless

... because it is simple and works well in rootless mode (i.e. when X 
does not take over the entire screen).

To install python + Tk:

     fink install python

The end result does require that you have X11 running prior to starting 
up a Python+Tk script.  This isn't a big deal as the Fink build of X 
includes XDarwin.app in /Applications/.

Fink also includes postgres (with python bindings)...

     fink install postgresql-ssl-python

... will take care of installing postgres, all necessary ssl related 
components, python and its dependencies, and the postgres<->python 
bindings (oh, cool, with PyObjC, I can easily build database driven 
apps using postgres and the python bindings to that database!).

b.bum

On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 04:44 AM, 
pythonmac-sig-request@python.org wrote:
> - MacPython (which you installed), which has a nice installer, a nice
> integrated development environment (IDE), etc. However, under MacOS X
> it does NOT work with Tkinter, the most common GUI environments for
> python. It does have its own Mac-specific GUI environment, but I
> don't know much about it (I don't even know if it's currently
> maintained or deprecated).
> - unix python (sometimes referred to as macho-python). A version of
> this comes already installed on MacOS X; if you run the Terminal
> application and type
>   python
> you'll be running this version of python. The version, as installed,
> does not include support for any GUI environment, but you can add
> this.