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authorJack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl>2001-09-11 11:30:02 (GMT)
committerJack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl>2001-09-11 11:30:02 (GMT)
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Added a note about making sure the Lac/Lib directory is in sys.path.
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@@ -15,14 +15,20 @@ To create a fullblown Python.app proceed as follows.
5. It is probably a good idea to add the Mac-specific modules to the framework,
with "make installmacsubtree". This puts a MacPython lib directory into
sys.prefix/Mac/Lib. Again, this is a temporary measure.
-
+6. To actually find the Lib directory installed in step 5 you add a line
+ to your site.py file (the one in /Library/Frameworks/....):
+ sys.path.append(os.path.join(sys.prefix, 'Mac/Lib'))
+
You are now done. In your Applications you should have a "Python", with the icon
being a falling 16 Ton weight with a shadow under it. You can drop Python scripts
on this and the will be run, in a full-windowing environment. Note that you
do not get sys.stdin, and that sys.stdout goes to the console (Use
Applications/Utilities/Console to see it).
+For some reason the application only accepts files with TEXT type, not straight unix
+typeless files.
+
Something to take note of is that the ".rsrc" files in the distribution are not
actually resource files, they're AppleSingle encoded resource files.
- Jack Jansen, jack@oratrix.com, 6-Sep-01. \ No newline at end of file
+ Jack Jansen, jack@oratrix.com, 11-Sep-01. \ No newline at end of file