[Pythonmac-SIG] AppKit ImportError (was py2app: ImportError)

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Sat Oct 8 16:36:04 CEST 2011


On 6 Oct, 2011, at 22:35, Sean Robinson wrote:

> On 10/06/2011 07:54 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>> 
>>> On 6 Oct, 2011, at 16:51, Sean Robinson wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Yes, my actual project had the same structure with a module and package with the same name.  This had not been a problem elsewhere, but I can see why it does not work with py2app.  So, I'll make sure to avoid a name collision between my init module and all packages, which sounds like a good practice to follow anyway.
>>> 
>>> Thank you for your help.  My bundled app is running.  Now to find why AppKit isn't importing…
>> 
>> I've just pushed a partial fix to the repository, this fixes the issue for regular builds but not yet for '--alias' builds.  Your code was very helpful in finding the cause of the issue, and while writing a testcase for this problem.
>> 
>> W.r.t. to AppKit not importing, does it import outside of the app bundle?
>> 
> 
> My script works as 'python quot.py' and now I am trying to bundle it up for my users to be able to click and run.  So, yes, from Terminal, AppKit imports correctly and the AppKit.NSSound module works well.
> 
> Looking at the various logs reported by py2app, it does not appear that the needed dirs are added to the app bundle's sys.path.  The follow process creates a failing AppKit import from the app bundle for me and shows different sys.path for 'python quot.py' vs app bundle launch.  I can provide much more detail (including modulegraph debug output) if requested, but the following steps in a Terminal window can reproduce the error for me every time.
> 
> $ echo "import sys" >> quot.py
> $ echo "print sys.path" >> quot.py
> $ echo "import AppKit" >> quot.py
> $ cat quot.py
> import sys
> print sys.path
> import AppKit
> 
> $ py2applet --make-setup quot.py
> Wrote setup.py
> 
> $ python quot.py
> NOTE: list of dirs in path
> 
> $ rm -rf build dist && python setup.py py2app
> running py2app
> 
> $ open -a quot
> NOTE: Error window appears and output is captured in Console which can be condensed to "ImportError: No module named AppKit".
> 
> 
> I believe I can overcome this error by finding the right path(s) to append to the app bundle's sys.path, but I'm surprised that py2app does not do this automagically.

py2app should do this automaticly.  What version of python do you use? Is that a custom install or the system version of python? And finally, which OSX version are you using?

Ronald

> 
> -- 
> Sean Robinson
> Laboratory Technician
> Physics Astronomy Geology
> sean.robinson at sccmail.maricopa.edu

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