What does it take to run a GUI app?
Chris Barker <[email protected]>
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Folks, Over on the list for the Anaconda distribution, we've run into a limitation in our understanding of the whole app bundle, etc business. The problem is thus: Anaconda is currently built with the old python / pythonw dichotomy. python is a standard unix-style executable -- great for command line apps, web servers, what have you. But you get the dreaded: """ This program needs access to the screen. Please run with a Framework build of python, and only when you are logged in on the main display of your Mac. """ when you try to run a GUI app (this error message from wxPython) pythonw, on the other hand, is a shell script that re-directs to a python that is inside a hand-built application bundle: #!/bin/bash export PYTHONEXECUTABLE=/Users/chris.barker/PythonStuff/Anaconda/anaconda/bin/python /Users/chris.barker/PythonStuff/Anaconda/anaconda/python.app/Contents/MacOS/python $@ This all sort-of works. But it's a pain, because you may not know when you start up an app, whether it needs to access the Window manger (like iPython, for instance). And now I need to put "pythonw" in my #! lines, which may fail on other *nix systems, and... One thought is to simply have "python" be the same shell script as "pythonw" but there is concern that having it be a re-directing shell script may cause problems for some use cases. I know that this has been solved for years in the python.org installer. So how is that done? Anaconda doesn't seem to want to make their python a proper framework build -- don't know why not -- would there be any downside? But is it possible to build the python executable so it can access the GUI system without structuring their whole python install? Thanks, -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [email protected] _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG