Re: [Plplot-devel] Mac OS X python troubles

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2004-01-22 18:01-0500 Koen van der Drift wrote:

>
> On Jan 21, 2004, at 9:23 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>
> > That is most peculiar.  That is a configured file (source
> > test/test_python.sh.in) where @PYTHON@ is changed to what should be the
> > correct python command on your system for test_python.sh.
> >
>
> Sorry, my mistake - I tested the examples I put in ~/tmp. I failed to
> update them after I rebuild plplot with the additional python package.

No problem.

>
> I still cannot run ./test_python.sh directly, I get this error:  can't
> open file '/pythondemos.py'.

./test_python.sh should not be run standalone (as documented in that script
and as you just found out). Instead, ./plplot_test.sh interprets its
options, and sets environment variables appropriately before invoking
./test_python.sh.

> Using ./plplot_test.sh works fine.

Excellent.  ==> Case closed (although I still think Rafael's proposed
test/Makefile.am configuration change for test_python.sh is a good cleanup.)

Note, if you just want to run the python examples alone with
that script, try ./plplot-test.sh --front-end=python.  Also, try
./plplot-test.sh --help to see other options.

Alan

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