From 408c16fad0a67496bb3e0cbea37cf0a79ecdaf36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jack Jansen Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:30:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added a note about making sure the Lac/Lib directory is in sys.path. --- Mac/OSX/README | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Mac/OSX/README b/Mac/OSX/README index b759e488901..4d50a8713e1 100644 --- a/Mac/OSX/README +++ b/Mac/OSX/README @@ -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