[Pythonmac-SIG] virtualenv problems

[George Wright]

Gidday again

I am having trouble getting a virtualenv to use the python version I  
want on my OSX 10.5.4.
• I have installed Python 2.5.2 and used ~/.bash_profile to export  
PATH so that this one comes up when I type python at the shell prompt.  
(I haven't made a ~/.profile entry. I wonder if that would help?)

• I have installed the latest "virtualenv"
• When I create a virtualenv from the command line like this:
$ virtualenv ENV
that works  but the python available after activating is the OSX  
installed global version 2.5.1 and not the 2.5.2 I hoped for. ??

• The virtualenv docs suggest you can call it like this:
$ python virtualenv.py ENV
Which might ensure that 252 came up - But I get this error message:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/Python.app/ 
Contents/MacOS/Python: can't open file 'virtualenv.py': [Errno 2] No  
such file or directory

AND I can't find a virtualenv.py anywhere
• The docs (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv#id2) suggest that  
one can 'name a python' but there is no indication as to how that is  
done.

• I have tried the no_site-packages option too.

Any suggestions?
George Wright
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[Pythonmac-SIG] Build Tkinter against custom tcl/tk?

[Russell E. Owen]

I'm trying to build a non-framework python on MacOS X 10.5 using a 
custom tcl/tk that lives in an arbitrary directory. (For complicated 
reasons we don't want the system tcl/tk). It is easy to build an X11 
tcl/tk this way (and we are content with X11) so I did that.

Unfortunately I can't seem to build Python in such a way that it sees 
this tcl/tk.

The only documented way to do this I found was to edit Modules/Setup or 
Setup.local, so I did the following:
$ /configure --prefix=/Users/rowen/TestBuild/pythonroot/ 
--disable-framework
Edit Modules/Setup.local to add this text (based on comments in 
Modules/Setup):
_tkinter _tkinter.c tkappinit.c -DWITH_APPINIT \
  -L/Users/rowen/TestBuild/tcltkroot/lib \
  -I/Users/rowen/TestBuild/tcltkroot/include \
  -ltk8.4 -ltcl8.4 \
  -I/usr/X11R6/include \
  -L/usr/X11R6/lib \
  -lX11
$ make
$ make install

This builds, but the resulting python is missing the _tkinter library.

I tried setting CFLAGS:
$ export CFLAGS="-I/Users/rowen/TestBuild/tcltkroot/include 
-L/Users/rowen/TestBuild/tcltkroot/bin"
before running configure, but that didn't help.

So...any advice? Any obvious mistake? (I did double-check each path in 
the text I added to Setup.local) Is there some way to convince configure 
to use my tcl/tk (that would potentially be simpler than editing 
Modules/Setup.local).

-- Russell

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[Pythonmac-SIG] appscript -- Getting 1708 Error on count command for word 2008

[Travis Caldwell]

 Not sure if this is user error or a bug, but I can't seem to send the count 
command to Word 2008 via appscript.

>>> word.documents.count()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
  File 
"/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/appscript-0.18.1-py2.5-macosx-10.5-i386.egg/appscript/reference.py",
 line 439, in __call__
appscript.reference.CommandError: CommandError -1708: Application could not 
handle this command.
Failed command: app(u'/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft 
Word.app').documents.count()

I can call help on the count command via the same path so I think I'm calling 
count() from the right place:

>>> word.documents.count.help()
==
Help (-t)

Reference: app(u'/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft 
Word.app').documents.count

--
Description of reference

Terminology for count command
[...]

And Word seems to support the count command since this works from the script 
editor:

tell application "Microsoft Word"
display dialog (get count of documents)
end tell


And finally, I tried doing a count with TextEdit and that seems to work fine:

>>> te = app('TextEdit')
>>> te.activate()
>>> te.documents.count()
3


Any help would be appreciated.

 _Travis_Caldwell_


  

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