[Pythonmac-SIG] py2applet question

[Bob Ippolito]

On Dec 28, 2004, at 4:14 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote:

> Kevin-Walzers-Computer:~/Desktop/eric-3.5.1/eric kevin$ py2applet 
> eric3.py
> from: can't read /var/mail/py2app.scripts.script_py2applet
> /usr/local/bin/py2applet: line 3: syntax error: unexpected end of file

Sounds like the hash-bang is missing from /usr/local/bin/py2applet.  
I'm not sure why that is, I haven't been able to reproduce with svn 
trunk.

> ~    from UI.SingleApplication import SingleApplicationClient
>
> ~  File "UI/SingleApplication.pyc", line 17, in ?
>
> ~  File "Preferences/__init__.pyc", line 1270, in ?
>
> ~  File "Preferences/Shortcuts.pyc", line 17, in ?
>
> ImportError: No module named XML.XMLUtilities

This is because whatever you're wrapping is making some crazy 
non-import-bytecode based import of some XML package.  You can not use 
the GUI py2applet with such an application, and you should probably 
create a setup.py.  The command-line py2applet might be able to package 
such an application like this:

  % py2applet eric3.py --includes='XML.*'

It really depends on what the XML is and how it's structured.

> I'm using the newest version of py2app (.1.6) that has the support for
> PyQt built-in. I'm just putting the name of the main script in the
> setup.py file, and not adding anyting else. Is there something special 
> I
> need to do with the XML module in terms of referencing it in the
> setup.py script? I've actually run into this problem (w/XML modules)
> with other apps I've tried to build with py2app, so I'm not sure what 
> to do.

Where the heck does this XML module come from anyway?  It's not in the 
standard library or anything else I've ever used.

-bob