<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px; ">> Yes, this makes sense to me.. but when treating a project as an artwork </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px; ">> I can't ask people to go through an effort beyond a simple start of the </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px; ">> app. For instance, I'm in Boston and the work is being show on a </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px; ">> computer in gallery in SF-- if it crashes, curators often will be </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size:
16px; ">> unenthusiastic when being told over the phone how to re-launch the </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px; ">> artwork-- it would be much easier to say, 'just double click the icon </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px; ">> labeled artwork'. </span><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px; "></span>Sure, But you can do that without creating an executable.<div>All you need is to drop a shortcut to the file on the desktop</div><div>and have the shebang line and chmod settings set up </div><div>correctly as per the previous posting. You don't even </div><div>need to have it end in .py just use the name of your </div><div>applicatrion.</div><div><br></div><div>But it would be worth while spending a little time
learning </div><div>about how Mac OS X works wioth the underlying Unix </div><div>shell and the interaction between icons on the desktop </div><div>and the underlying files. A book like The Missing Manual </div><div>for Mac OS X or almost any other in depth Moc OS X </div><div>manual should explain what you need to know. </div><div><br></div><div>But if you are taking the trouble to learn Python you </div><div>really should learn the OS fundamentals too</div><div><div> </div>Alan Gauld<br>Author of the Learn To Program website<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.alan-g.me.uk">http://www.alan-g.me.uk/<br></a><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Pete Froslie
<froslie@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Alan Gauld <alan.gauld@btinternet.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> tutor@python.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 7 July, 2009 10:33:10 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Tutor] mac os x executable<br></font><br><br>
<br>Does this make sense?<br><br>thank,<br>Pete F<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Alan Gauld <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:alan.gauld@btinternet.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:alan.gauld@btinternet.com">alan.gauld@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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"Pete Froslie" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:froslie@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:froslie@gmail.com">froslie@gmail.com</a>> wrote<div class="im"><br>
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I'm having trouble finding good tutorials on creating standalone executable<br>
files for mac os x.. I've been looking at 'py2app', but can't seem get a<br>
solid grasp. Any help would be greatly appreciated!<br>
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My first question would be do you need to? After all with Python 2.3 pre<br>
installed on MacOS X can't you just distribute the python files?<br>
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Just a thought.,<br>
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Alan G <br><div><div></div><div class="h5">
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