On Apr 10, 2006, at 2:45 PM, has wrote: > Ronald wrote: > >>>> I think you're totally mislead as to what IDLE does. Yes, it >>>> has interactive interpreters with a save feature, but it also >>>> edits source files and has a debugger. It IS conventional. >>> >>> Yep, you're right. I never use IDLE myself (it's a bizarre- >>> looking beast [1] and I notice it doesn't run appscript either) >>> so missed that bit. Go with the SE-like format then. >> >> It should do appscript in the universal build. > > Python 2.4.3/IDLE 1.1.3; appscript just raises a 'no window manager > connection' in the interpreter window. Dunno why.
From an IDLE session: >>> import sys >>> sys.executable '/Applications/MacPython 2.4/IDLE.app/Contents/MacOS/Python' >>> import MacOS >>> MacOS.WMAvailable() False If you add a little hack like this to its startup script (or to bundlebuilder even), then it will work: import sys sys.executable = sys.prefix + '/bin/python' + sys.version[:3] >>> import sys >>> sys.executable '/Applications/MacPython 2.4/IDLE.app/Contents/MacOS/Python' >>> import MacOS >>> MacOS.WMAvailable() True I'm not sure why sys.executable is what it is in the subprocess, but WMAvailable does indeed work with that hack. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
