On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
> You need to do an "exec" after doing a "fork". /usr/bin/python on OS X
> is a "framework build", and some (most?) of the OS X frameworks just
> don't work after doing a fork. You have to restart with an "exec".
All right, but how is this do
Jarkko Laiho wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
> > You need to do an "exec" after doing a "fork". /usr/bin/python on OS X
> > is a "framework build", and some (most?) of the OS X frameworks just
> > don't work after doing a fork. You have to restart with an "exec".
Samantha Bess wrote:
I'm hoping you can help me. I recently purchased a screensaver called
Paper Pilots. When I tried to install it, a message popped up that
said, "This program needs access to the screen. Please run with
'pythonw',".
This is no longer required for recent versions of Python
Chris Van Bael wrote:
I want to port an application that runs on Linux and Windows perfectly to OSX.
We use Python 2.5, PyGame, PyGTK and SQLAlchemy for it.
Now I have a system with Leopard on it, but want to make sure what
would be the best solution to get these dependencies installed on it.
I r
>> http://code.activestate.com/recipes/278731/
> So, that recipe is inadequate on OS X -- you pretty much have to do an
> exec after the fork. Doesn't matter which of the exec functions you
> use -- use the most convenient one. What you're trying to accomplish
> is re-initialization of some of th
Jarkko Laiho wrote:
> So ultimately the question is: how should the forking code in the
> recipe be modified, so that it satisfies the requirements of OS X?
> What does an actual, concrete exec() call look like in this case, and
> at what point in the code should it occur?
I don't know -- you di
>> What does an actual, concrete exec() call look like in this case, and
>> at what point in the code should it occur?
> I don't know -- you didn't post your entire program. Read the Wikipedia
> page and follow the refs.
I did and understood just about none of it. Way over my head. But:
> Here's
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Chris Van Bael wrote:
Yes, I absolutely do want to buil binaries that can run on 10.3.9 and 10.4!
This is very important.
Then you want the python.org python.
Do you have the paths for the system python and the installation from
python.
