[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app and ipython

[Thomas Robitaille]

>> I am trying to use py2app to make a simple MacOS X application that  
>> launches an ipython shell.
>
> How do you expect to use this? It appears to need a terminal window  
> -- Py2app is usually for GUI apps, so it will dump output to  
> Console.app, but not give you a terminal.

That's true - what I would really like is to be able to open a  
terminal with an ipython prompt from a .app file, and to include a  
specific module I am developing so that it can be used from that  
prompt. All this in a bundled file so that any user can download it  
and use it without installing python. I've poked around a bit and have  
found this

http://svn.pythonmac.org/py2app/py2app/trunk/examples/EggInstaller/EggInstaller.py

which looks like what I need for opening the terminal. But the problem  
is that when the terminal is opened, the script that is run uses the  
system python, not the one in the .app file, so if there is no system  
python, this will crash. I guess maybe a solution is that when the  
terminal is opened I should be setting the $PYTHONPATH to the path  
inside the .app file? Any ideas?

>> However, when I try launching the resulting executable, I get a  
>> dialog with "ImportError: No module named ipy_profile_none"
>
> where does that usually live?
>
> For more diagnostics you can look into the build app bundle by right  
> clicking on the bundle. Poke around in there, and you can see what's  
> getting included.

I looked into this some more. I actually had a problem even if my  
python module is a single line, for example

import custommodule

where custommodule is a module I wrote myself and installed using  
easy_install or python setup.py install. If I use such a module,  
the .app gives an ImportError...

> You may need to explicitly include the IPython pacakge, so you'll  
> get eveything. See a recent thread: py2app and mysqldb
>
>> What am I missing?
>> Not sure if this is important, but when running setup.py py2app, I  
>> get the following warning:
>> /usr/bin/strip: the __LINKEDIT segment does not cover the end of  
>> the file (can't be processed) in: /Users/tom/Code/python/ 
>> experimental/ipython/test/dist/aplpy.app/Contents/Frameworks/ 
>> libgcc_s.1.dylib (for architecture i386)
>
> You may need the latest macholib:
>
> easy_install macholib==dev

Thanks!

Thomas

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