[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app with wxpython

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 22 Feb, 2011, at 12:03, Brendan Simon (eTRIX) wrote:

> On 22/02/11 8:57 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>> 
>> On 21 Feb, 2011, at 12:33, Brendan Simon (eTRIX) wrote:
>> 
>>> On 21/02/11 10:00 PM, pythonmac-sig-request at python.org wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Subject: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] py2app with wxpython
>>>> From: Ned Deily <nad at acm.org>
>>>> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:46:05 -0800
>>>> To: pythonmac-sig at python.org
>>>> In article <4D61918E.1010308 at etrix.com.au>,
>>>>  "Brendan Simon (eTRIX)" <brendan.simon at etrix.com.au> wrote:
>>>>> > Do you need to specify 'pythonw' as the interpreter ??
>>>>> > It may depend on python version.  I found (on OS X) that Python 2.7 
>>>>> > requires pythonw rather than python to run my wxPython apps.
>>>> That sounds very suspicious.  On OS X installs, bin/python and 
>>>> bin/pythonw are supposed to be identical.
>>> Indeed you are right.  The python and pythonw varieties are identical for Python 2.7 and my wxPython application works fine with either.
>>> 
>>> I tried again with my Python 2.5.4 install and that does have the problem.
>> 
>> Which python 2.5.4 is that (that is, how did you install it)? Are you sure that 'python' and 'pythonw' refer to the same python installation (what is sys.prefix for these two commands)?
> I'm using standard python.org builds.
> 
> 
> brendan$ python
> Python 2.5.4 (r254:67917, Dec 23 2008, 14:57:27) 
> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import sys
> >>> print sys.prefix
> /Users/brendan/virtualenv/xxx-py25/bin/..
> 
> 
> brendan$ pythonw
> Python 2.5.4 (r254:67917, Dec 23 2008, 14:57:27) 
> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import sys
> >>> print sys.prefix
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5
> 
> 
> Hmmm, it might be something to do with my virtualenv setup (I've only just started using virtualenv).
> 
> brendan$ ls -l ~/virtualenv/xxx-py25/bin/python*
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 brendan  staff  30028 27 Jan 22:11 /Users/brendan/virtualenv/xxx-py25/bin/python
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 brendan  staff      6 27 Jan 22:11 /Users/brendan/virtualenv/xxx-py25/bin/python2.5 -> python
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 brendan  staff     61 27 Jan 22:20 /Users/brendan/virtualenv/xxx-py25/bin/pythonw -> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin/pythonw


AFAIK pythonw doesn't work in virtualenvs and within a virtualenv the python command is the real embedded interpreter, not the pythonw wrapper you get otherwise.

This is something that needs to be fixed by someone. I'm more likely to work on a simular tool that supports both 2.x and 3.x and doesn't install crap I didn't ask for and isn't mentioned in the documentation.

Ronald

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