Anything having to do with Finder or the Dock (or Activity Monitor, for that matter) seems to be somewhat over-simplified and mysterious. "Not responding", in Activity Monitor, for instance, seems to be due to an undocumented window server probe of processes marked somehow as applications, for which Python has no built-in support.
I find Thread Viewer helpful in looking at programs. But even better is to build your own version of the system Python (2.5.1) with debugging symbols, and use that instead of /usr/bin/python (or, of course, you could use a different version of Python entirely). Then you can point gdb at that running application, and using the Python gdb macros, http://wiki.python.org/moin/DebuggingWithGdb, you can see exactly what's going on in all the threads. I don't use pyinstaller, either. I just build a standard OS X install bundle by hand, and then as I develop just change the contents of of the Resource subdirectory. Bill _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
