[Pythonmac-SIG] Installing modules with py2app

João Vale joao.vale at ndrive.com
Tue Jan 18 18:05:53 CET 2011


Do you have distutils installed? It usually doesn't come bundled with
Python. It can be installed with easy_install:

easy_install distutils


Cheers,
João



On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Mier, Alejandro <alejandro at ti.com> wrote:
> Hi
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> I am using a separate Python install (ActivePython 2.6 ), so that’s not it
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> Thanks
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> Alejandro Mier y Concha
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> From: pythonmac-sig-bounces+alejandro=ti.com at python.org
> [mailto:pythonmac-sig-bounces+alejandro=ti.com at python.org] On Behalf Of
> Chris Weisiger
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 10:08 AM
> Cc: pythonmac-sig at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Installing modules with py2app
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> Did you build the app bundle with the Python that came with OSX, or did you
> install a separate Python install from python.org and use that? You have to
> do the latter; py2app's not allowed to include components of the operating
> system in the apps it generates. Windows gets around this problem by not
> having a standard Python install.
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> HTH
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> -Chris
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> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Mier, Alejandro <alejandro at ti.com> wrote:
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> Hello
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> I have a script that installs Python, and then installs some modules with:
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> subprocess.call("python setup.py install")
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> The script works on Windows with py2exe, but gives me this error when using
> py2app:
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> File setup.py
>    from distutils.core import setup
> ImportError: No module named distutils.core
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> I tried explicitly including distutils when building the .app bundle, with
> python setup.py py2app --packages distutils (and several variations of
> --includes), but then I get this error:
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> error: invalid command 'install'
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> What do I need to do to make this work on mac?
>
> Thanks!
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