Thanks.  For purposes of my initial explorations into wx, I will stick with
python 2.6 for now and keep an eye on the progress being made with wx 2.9

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Christopher Barker
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On 12/9/10 11:40 AM, Richard Fuhr wrote:
>
>> After installing the Mac distribution of wx for Python 2.7,
>>
>
> I THINK I know the issue. There are two binaries for Python2.7:
>
> one is 32 bit, PPC and Intel (10.3.9 and above)
> one is 32 and 64 bit, Intel only (10.5 and above)
>
> You probably installed the later, and thus you are running a 64 bit python.
> wx 2.8 only supports 32 bit python, due to the fact that it is built on the
> carbon libs, which are only 32 bit.
>
> wx 2.9 (officially unstable) should support 64 bit, but I don't know what
> the state of the binaries are.
>
> There is probably a way to get your python2.7 to start up in 32 bit mode,
> but I don't know what it is.
>
> So you can either:
>
> Install the 32 bit python2.7 (the 10.3 one)
>
> or
>
> Stick with python 2.6
>
>
> -Chris
>
>
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