[Pythonmac-SIG] MachoPython 2.2.2 build works; 3 minor questions

[Jack Jansen]

On Friday, Nov 8, 2002, at 01:26 Europe/Amsterdam, Russell E Owen wrote:
> 1) Readlines support is missing when python is run via the shell 
> script in pythonw, though one can activate it by doing "import 
> readline". Any idea how to get that done automatically at startup?

Put it in your PYTHONSTARTUP file. Or add it to sitecustomize.py. Or 
there are probably many other ways...

> 2) Is it possible to make a Python/Tkinter source file that can be run 
> as a command (i.e. that has a working #! line in it)? I tried the 
> obvious, but it fails. Example:
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/pythonw
> """Test of #!/usr/local/bin/pythonw; the file does exist and does 
> work"""
>
> Results in:
> /usr/local/bin/pythonw: Event not found.

#!/Applications/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/python
Not pretty, but it works.

> Ideally, I'd like to set it up so /usr/local/bin/python could be used 
> for *everything* involving the command line, meaning I could type 
> "python" at the command line or use #!/usr/local/bin/python in my 
> source code and it would all work (including with Tkinter).

Under 10.2 you could create a minimal C program that does an execve() 
of /Applications/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/python, I think that will 
work okay. On 10.1 this will not work for all situations: on 10.1 the 
window server is contacted as soon as you start a program (on 10.2 it 
seems to be delayed until you actually use the window server), so using 
the windowing Python will likely fail if you don't have a windowing 
environment.

> 3) pythonw does the following when run with a source file as its 
> argument:
> % pythonw TUI.py
> original argc=2
> original argv[0] = "/Applications/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/python"
> original argv[1] = "TUI.py"
> modified argc=2
> modified argv[0] = "/Applications/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/python"
> modified argv[1] = "TUI.py"
>
> I'm guessing this is a known oddity in 2.2.2 that is resolved in 2.3, 
> but if there's some trivial way to stop it, I'll put it in the 
> documentation.

Remove the silly debug prints from macmain.c and rebuild. Could you do 
me a favor and file a bug report for this?
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