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authorTony Lownds <tony@lownds.com>2003-05-13 15:28:21 (GMT)
committerTony Lownds <tony@lownds.com>2003-05-13 15:28:21 (GMT)
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1. The command-line arguments for subprocesses no longer need to be
specialized for Mac OS X. 2. buildapp.py - a new file for building an application icon for IDLE on Mac OS X. See INSTALL.txt
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at python1.5. If so, change the first line in the /usr/bin/idle
script to read:
!# /usr/bin/python2.2
+
+ On Mac OS X, /usr/bin/python may be pointing at the OS-installed
+ python, which does not have GUI support. Change the first line of
+ /usr/bin/idle to read:
+ #! /usr/bin/env pythonw
+
+ Also, to build an IDLE application that can be used from the Finder
+ on Mac OS X, run:
+ pythonw buildapp.py build
+ open build
+ You will see an IDLE application.
See README.txt for more details on this version of IDLEfork.