[Tutor] mac os x executable

[Pete Froslie]

That's great Alan.. I see what you mean with the shortcut-- going to try it.
Thanks for the suggestion on the Mac OS x manual.. I will certainly start
looking more into OS fundamentals.

I will say that I've been having a really good time with Python and am
excited to see it start working further with the OS (as well as utilizing it
in artworks)

Cheers,
Pete

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:12 PM, ALAN GAULD <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>wrote:

> > Yes, this makes sense to me.. but when treating a project as an artwork >
> I can't ask people to go through an effort beyond a simple start of the
> > app. For instance, I'm in Boston and the work is being show on a
> > computer in gallery in SF-- if it crashes, curators often will be
> > unenthusiastic when being told over the phone how to re-launch the
> > artwork-- it would be much easier to say, 'just double click the icon
> > labeled artwork'.
> Sure, But you can do that without creating an executable.All you need is
> to drop a shortcut to the file on the desktop
> and have the shebang line and chmod settings set up
> correctly as per the previous posting. You don't even
> need to have it end in .py just use the name of your
> applicatrion.
>
> But it would be worth while spending a little time learning
> about how Mac OS X works wioth the underlying Unix
> shell and the interaction between icons on the desktop
> and the underlying files. A book like The Missing Manual
> for Mac OS X or almost any other in depth Moc OS X
> manual should explain what you need to know.
>
> But if you are taking the trouble to learn Python you
> really should learn the OS fundamentals too
>
> Alan Gauld
> Author of the Learn To Program website
> http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Pete Froslie <froslie at gmail.com>
> *To:* Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
> *Cc:* tutor at python.org
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 7 July, 2009 10:33:10 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Tutor] mac os x executable
>
>
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> thank,
> Pete F
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> "Pete Froslie" <froslie at gmail.com> wrote
>>
>>  I'm having trouble finding good tutorials on creating standalone
>>> executable
>>> files for mac os x.. I've been looking at 'py2app', but can't seem get a
>>> solid grasp. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>
>> My first question would be do you need to? After all with Python 2.3 pre
>> installed on MacOS X can't you just distribute the python files?
>>
>> Just a thought.,
>>
>> Alan G
>>
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