[Pythonmac-SIG] Trying to make an app

[Charles Hartman]

I apologize for a really lame question -- but where do I put the (now) 
py2app-0.1.1 folder when I've downloaded it? Should I be trying to make 
an .app file of py2app itself? If I put the folder in  
/Library/Python/2.3 with other packages like wxPython and Numeric, and 
try the Terminal command 'python setup.py py2app', I get the errmsg 
"invalid command 'py2app' (no module named 'distutils.command.py2app'". 
If I just double-lick the 'setup.py' file in (for instance) 
.../py2app-0.1.1/examples/wxPython/doodle, I get "no module named 
py2app". Same message if I navigate to .../tools/py2applet and use 
"python setup.py py2app".

So I can see I'm doing something really *basically* stupid here, but 
none of the logical (?) alternatives I've tried gives me an error 
message with enough of a hint to steer me. Sorry; I know the inside of 
Python, however poorly, a lot better than the outside.

Charles Hartman


> py2app should pretty much just work if you give it your script.  I 
> don't have wxPython on this machine so I can't tell if anything 
> special needs to be done or not, but I'm relatively certain it should 
> Just Work if memory serves correctly.  Look at the examples directory.
>
> -bob
>