[Pythonmac-SIG] MachoPython 2.2.2 build question

[Shearer, Andrew]

I had the same problem with XML. Unix Pythons before 2.3, including Jaguar's
build of Python 2.2, don't include expat or any other XML parser (except
xmllib's pure Python implementation, which xml.sax doesn't find).

To add expat support, download expat from
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/>, do its ./configure, sudo make
install dance, then re-run Python's make command.

Andrew Shearer
Web Infrastructure Analyst
Medical Computing, IS

http://www.shearersoftware.com/

> ----------
> From: 	Russell E Owen
> Sent: 	Wednesday, November 6, 2002 1:03 PM
> To: 	Mac Python mailing list
> Cc: 	Brian Lenihan
> Subject: 	Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] MachoPython 2.2.2 build question
> 
> >On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 04:54  PM, Russell E Owen wrote:
> >
> >>I tried to build MachoPython 2.2.2 with aqua Tk and ran into a 
> >>snag: Tkinter acts oddly.
> >
> >>this puts up a Tk root window, as usual, but whenever I try to 
> >>click on the Tk window, I get:
> >>>>>  SetFrontProcess failed,-606
> >
> >Add add a shell script named pythonw to /usr/local/bin or somewhere 
> >else in your PATH
> >
> >#!/bin/sh
> >exec 
> >/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/Python.ap
> p/Contents/MacOS/python 
> >"$@"
> >
> >use pythonw to launch GUI apps.
> 
> Thank you very much. That pretty much did the trick.
> 
> However, most of my files start with #!/usr/local/bin/python. Is 
> there any way to get that to work? At present, running such files as 
> commands leads to unusable windows, an ugly pitfall.
> 
> I tried the obvious (delete /usr/local/bin/python and rename 
> /usr/local/bin/pythonw to it); typing python at the prompt does bring 
> up a copy of python that can be used for Tkinter. However, any files 
> that start with #!/usr/local/bin/python will *NOT* run (and it looks 
> as if the #! line is totally failing to run).
> 
> While I'm on the subject of 2.2.2, should I be worried that test_sax 
> and test_pyexpat are unexpectedly skipped after a "make test"? I fear 
> this means that the xml stuff is broken, but am not certain. (I'm not 
> using xml anyway, but do want to be sure that any unknown bugs are 
> reported.)
> 
> I'm thrilled to finally have aqua Tk support working (though still 
> hope to get execution-as-a-command working again). I have posted 
> instructions for building Python 2.2.2 with readlines and aqua 
> Tkinter support on MacOS 10.2; see the link at: 
> <http://www.astro.washington.edu/owen>.
> 
> -- Russell
> 
> P.S. when Python is via exec... it claims to be Python 2.3a0 (#1, Sep 
> 6 2002, 20:20:16), even though I built 2.2.2. I suspect this is a 
> quirk of the 2.2.2 source code.
> 
> 
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