[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Pythonmac-SIG Digest, Vol 20, Issue 24

[Bob Ippolito]

On Dec 21, 2004, at 7:22 AM, Brian Lenihan wrote:

>> >> 208-186-56-189:/sw/bin jis$ cat /sw/bin/idle2.3
>> >> #!/sw/bin/python
>>
>> Which python is first on your path? IIRC there is a feature in darwin
>> that wreaks havoc with the setup code in python that finds the correct
>> prefix (and library). This ends up always picking the prefix for the
>> first python on the path. Darwinports contains a patch for that. Using
>> "#!/usr/bin/env /sw/bin/python" should also work.
>
> The "feature" is that OS X does not include the full path to the 
> executable in argv[0].  Using #!/usr/bin/env /path/to/python helps.  
> Especially in the really annoying case where command line scripts 
> work, but scripts launched from applications don't.
>
> Which reminds me, both pyobjc's and py2app's bdist_mpkg also could be 
> tweaked so
> preflight shell scripts won't fail to run on some systems:

Actually, using #!/usr/bin/env %(sys.executable_path) *will* cause it 
to fail to run in more cases than it will not.  I'll take your patch 
for adding a junk extension, but not this one.

-bob