Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw' executables on OSX.

The previous implementation used execv(2) to run the real interpreter, which means that
you cannot use the arch(1) tool to select the architecture you want to use for a
universal build because that only affects the python/pythonw wrapper and not the actual
interpreter.

The new version uses posix_spawnv with a number of OSX-specific options that ensure that
the real interpreter is started using the same CPU architecture as the wrapper, and that
means that 'arch -ppc python' now actually works.

I've also changed the way that the wrapper looks for the framework: it is now linked to
the framework rather than hardcoding the framework path. This should make it easier to
provide pythonw support in tools like virtualenv.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/macosxSupport.py b/Lib/idlelib/macosxSupport.py
index 8f86ca6..03a1458 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/macosxSupport.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/macosxSupport.py
@@ -5,13 +5,19 @@ GUI application (as opposed to an X11 application).
 import sys
 import Tkinter
 
+
+_appbundle = None
+
 def runningAsOSXApp():
     """
     Returns True if Python is running from within an app on OSX.
     If so, assume that Python was built with Aqua Tcl/Tk rather than
     X11 Tcl/Tk.
     """
-    return (sys.platform == 'darwin' and '.app' in sys.executable)
+    global _appbundle
+    if _appbundle is None:
+        _appbundle = (sys.platform == 'darwin' and '.app' in sys.executable)
+    return _appbundle
 
 def addOpenEventSupport(root, flist):
     """