[Pythonmac-SIG] bundlebuilder location in PyObjC example

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Sun Nov 2 22:51:16 EST 2003


On Nov 2, 2003, at 7:03 PM, chuck clark wrote:

> I'm just starting to work with PyObjC and I have to say I love the  
> idea of
> it so far and having a blast with what I've played with so far.
>
> Yesterday I was working through the tutorial on the SF page.   
> Everything
> went off without a hitch except for the location of bundlebuilder.py.
> According to the tutorial it should be at $PYLIB/site-packages/PyObjC.
> However on my system it is in the following directory:
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
> python2.3/plat-mac/
>
> I'm new to the Mac and OS X so I just completed the framework install  
> the
> other night with some help from Bob I.  What I'm wondering now is have  
> I
> messed up the install or does the tutorial need to be updated?

Yes and no.  On Python 2.2 installations, bundlebuilder is indeed  
inside the PyObjC package.  Otherwise, it is included with Python 2.3.

Basically, unless you're using 2.2 for some reason (Dinu, why?!), you  
want to use the plat-mac version.

-bob




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