I spend literally hours every month or two trying (unsuccessfully) to get the various systems to co-exist and the result is not pretty. At the moment, idle doesn't work anywhere, at all. Here's the tip of my iceberg. Suggestions welcome.
208-186-56-189:~ jis$ idle
-bash: /sw/lib/python2.3/idlelib/idle.py: Permission denied
208-186-56-189:~ jis$ sudo idle
Password:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/sw/bin/idle", line 3, in ?
from idlelib.PyShell import main
File "/sw/src/root-python23-2.3.4-2/sw/lib/python2.3/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 11, in ?
File "/sw/lib/python2.3/threading.py", line 13, in ?
from traceback import print_exc as _print_exc
ImportError: cannot import name print_exc
The ideal would of course be a single python. But failing that would be a single installer that would put in place the two (or even more) pythons needed in a manner that allowed one to work and install new modules as needed, without risking obscure disasters.
This is a known problem, which is explained in Mac/OSX/Dist/README:=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Currently (November 2003) there is still a bug in the build procedure
for $DESTROOT builds: building some of the applets will fail (in
``Mac/OSX/Makefile``) if you don't have the same version of Python installed
normally. So before doing the distribution you should build and install
a framework Python in the normal way.
Unfortunately, the problem is rather difficult to fix. buildapplet (or py2app, or similar tools) will need to be told that we're in a destroot install situation, so that if it wants filenames it should use the non-destrooted version but if it actually needs the data that's in the files it should use the destrooted filename.
I can live with the current workaround for MacPython installers, if it's a problem for darwinports file a bugreport and a solution may be available sooner:-)
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Jack Jansen, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman
Jon Schull, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Information Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology
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