[Pythonmac-SIG] installing wxpython on panther

[altern]

Bob Ippolito wrote:
> On Oct 15, 2004, at 11:46 AM, altern wrote:
> 
>> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>
>>> On Oct 15, 2004, at 6:52 AM, r2d2 wrote:
>>>
>>>> hi
>>>>
>>>>>         i am trying to install wxpython on panther. My problem is  
>>>>> that
>>>>>         because i installed python 3.3.3 and the default installer  
>>>>> for
>>>>>         wxpython goes into the panther python version instead of the
>>>>>         latest version i installed.
>>>>>         i downloaded the source but i am not sure what i should do  to
>>>>>         avoid this problem, i also tried the package manager but  
>>>>> seems
>>>>>         to just download the .dmg so back to square one.
>>>>>         Any suggestions would be apreciated.
>>>>>     I suggest just sticking with the stock Python 2.3.0 and using  the
>>>>>     binary installer. Otherwise you will have to compile 
>>>>> everything   from
>>>>>     source, and you will certainly run into Version Mismatch  
>>>>> problems  at
>>>>>     some time or another.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> i see.
>>>> but i need it together with other packages like opengl and they 
>>>> are   already installed for the 2.3.3 python by the package manager, 
>>>> how  can  i set the package manager to install the packages to the 
>>>> python   version i want?. or maybe it would be easier to get rid of 
>>>> the  python  2.3.3 i installed? but how to do it?
>>>>
>>>> Sorry if all this questions are very stupid but i have been using  
>>>> all  this on windows and it was dead easy to set up, now i am still  
>>>> quite  confused with the unix way to do things.
>>>
>>> Remove 2.3.3.
>>> http://pythonmac.org/wiki/  
>>> FAQ#head-45464eef844e198e465151f3b3953a4c15b9eacb
>>
>> i removed 2.3.3 (or at least i think i did it by following the  
>> instructions on the FAQ). Now i managed to install pyopengl and  
>> wxpython but i also need numeric and PIL. I am using the package  
>> manager but it doesnt download them properly. I discovered that PIL  
>> and numeric went into this folder
>>
>> /library/frameworks/python.framework/versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site- 
>> packages
>>
>> while OpenGL and wx are in
>>
>> /library/python/2.3
>>
>> then i run python and i can import wx or opengl but not numeric or PIL.
>>
>> i would have thoght that all packages should be installed in the  
>> default directory.
> 
> 
> Something broke your site-packages symlink!  It wasn't anything from  
> PackageManager, perhaps the wxPython installer is broken?
> 
> the site-packages folder should be a symlink to /Library/Python/2.3.   
> Move everything from the site-packages folder to /Library/Python/2.3  
> and then recreate the symlink.
> 
> -bob

well. now its working. But i dont know how i did it. Suddently they were 
all in the right place and i could import them. I tried to connect the 
package manager to other urls provided by python.org but whenever i 
wanted to download and install some package i always got a message 
saying that i needed to install those packages manually. After that 
everything was working ok. Weird.

anyway, its working and my problems are finally coding problems and not 
installation issues :-) I am porting to mac some opengl+wxpython stuff i 
developed under windows.

I get a "bus error" caused by this opengl code (it didnt happen on windows)
q = gluNewQuadric()
anyone knows if this is a bug? but maybe i would be better to ask in 
pyopengl mailing list.

finally, i am trying to find a nice environment to code. under windows i 
was quite happy with IDLE but the mac version dowsnt color the syntax 
and there are some other featurtes missing.

thanks!!!

-- 
enrike