On Jun 6, 2006, at 9:13 AM, Russell E Owen wrote:

> At 5:06 PM -0700 2006-06-05, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> On Jun 5, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote:
>>
>>> When using py2app to create an application, is there a simple way  
>>> to get
>>> the path to the copy of python that is/will be bundled into the
>>> application?
>>>
>>> (I need this to copy in some matploblit data files)
>>> So far I'm generating it manually using some assumptions. it  
>>> works but
>>> if there's a safer/easier way, I'd rather use that.
>>
>> I don't know how matplotlib is structured, but you might want to  
>> look at writing a recipe for it. The pygame and PyOpenGL examples  
>> show how to include a few data files or an entire package as-is.
>
> That is a great idea. I'll take a look at creating such a recipe.
>
> Meanwhile...is there a simple way to get the path to the python  
> framework that is within the bundled application?

I'm not entirely sure what that means, but probably not.. I think the  
frameworks get copied after all of the install phases have been run.

> Also, one comment that may or may not be be relevant (since I've  
> not looked at the recipes yet): the right place for the matplotlib  
> data files is deep in the included python framework but...

Technically the correct answer to that is probably sys.prefix/share/ 
matplotlib or something.. "deep in the framework" doesn't really mean  
anything to anyone.

-bob


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