[Pythonmac-SIG] Python dieing outside project builder

[Jack Jansen]

On donderdag, juni 13, 2002, at 03:36 , Matthew Smith wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm linking to the python framework in an app I'm working on, 
> the app needs
> to run a python script at start-up.
>
> If I run the app from inside project builder everything works 
> and the return
> value for executing the script is fine.
>
> If the program is launched outside project builder (eg 
> double-clicking on it
> in the finder), the script doesn't run and the return value 
> gives an error.
>
> The script I am running is with the .app file in the build directory...
>
> Any ideas?

Just a wild guess: when you double-click you could have a 
different working directory than when you run from Project 
Builder. You could put some debug output in your embedding 
application (for instance print the working directory, or set 
the Py_VerboseFlag to 1 before calling Python), and the output 
will appear in the console window 
(Applications->Utilities->Console).

I'm also not 100% sure which Python initialize routine you need 
to call if your Python scripts want access to Carbon methods. I 
think Py_Initialize() may be good enough, but it could be that 
you have to use PyMac_Initialize() (as in MacPython). Or maybe 
you even need something completely different (i.e. 
Py_Initialize() plus some of the stuff in PyMac_Initialize().

Maybe someone else has already experimented with embedding 
MachoPython and has information to share?
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