[Pythonmac-SIG] problem creating first pyobjc file

[David Reed]

On Mar 23, 2005, at 4:53 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>
> On Mar 23, 2005, at 4:40 PM, David Reed wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm a Linux refugee familiar used to programming pygtk apps with  
>> glade and decided to see how to make Cocoa apps. I downloaded the  
>> pybobc 1.3b1 and py2app that Bob announced about a week ago. I'm  
>> following the tutorial and go to the step where I'm supposed to run:
>>
>> /usr/bin/python setup.py py2app -A
>>
>> and I get:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "setup.py", line 2, in ?
>>     import py2app
>>   File  
>> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
>> python2.3/site-packages/py2app/__init__.py", line 43, in ?
>>     import distutils.dist, distutils.core, distutils.command,  
>> build_app, sys
>>   File  
>> "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
>> python2.3/site-packages/py2app/build_app.py", line 24, in ?
>>     from py2app.find_modules import find_modules, parse_mf_results
>>   File "/Library/Python/2.3/py2app/py2app/__init__.py", line 33, in ?
>>     import py2app.install
>> ImportError: No module named install
>
> You have two copies of py2app installed, one of which is older than  
> 0.1.6.
>
> From <http://undefined.org/python/py2app.html>:
>
> As of version 0.1.6, py2app uses the extra_path feature of  distutils,  
> which changes the installation layout. If you have py2app 0.1.5 or  
> earlier installed, you must manually remove the following directories  
> from your site-packages directory (probably /Library/Python/2.3 ) if  
> they exist before upgrading:
> 	◦ 	py2app
> 	◦ 	macholib
> 	◦ 	bdist_mpkg
> 	◦ 	modulegraph
> 	◦ 	altgraph
>
> so.. clobber those directories and reinstall the mpkg.
>

Thanks Bob. A few of those didn't exist (modulegraph and altgraph I  
think), but I deleted the ones that did and got it to work. Now I need  
to look at the Cocoa books I borrowed from the library and try to  
understand a little bit more about Cocoa and Objective-C.

Thanks,
Dave