[Pythonmac-SIG] Beginner's questions

[Konrad Hinsen]

On 26.12.2003, at 22:54, Jack Jansen wrote:

> You cannot run Tkinter programs from the IDE. Nor, for that matter, 
> Cocoa programs or wxWindows programs or anything else that uses a 
> different GUI toolkit than the IDE does. I will add an FAQ entry on 
> this (I thought this was already there, but apparently it wasn't).

So what is the GUI toolkit used by the IDE?

> You need to run such scripts either through PythonLauncher (select 
> "Open with" in the finder, select PythonLauncher) or through "pythonw 
> script.py" from the Terminal command line.

That works indeed, thanks!

> Definitely a known problem, but there is no "correct" solution: it's 
> really a Python design problem. Numeric expects to install its headers 
> into $prefix/include/

I am still hoping that one day distutils will take care of that by 
providing a special category "header files".

> python2.3, but on MacOSX 10.3 this directory is "owned" by Apple. The 
> workaround is to make this directory writable, the hidden PackMan 
> package WriteableInclude has a recipe for this, and then install 
> Numeric.

OK, I will try that.

Konrad.