Re: [Pyobjc-dev] newbie questions about PyObjC

[Joe S. <jo...@st...>]

On Oct 2, 2008, at 6:25 PM, Will Larson wrote:

> PyObjC is a bit hairy to get started with. I wrote a handful of  
> tutorials about a month ago ( http://lethain.com/entry/2008/aug/22/an-epic-introduction-to-pyobjc-and-cocoa/ 
>  ) which should be fairly helpful for getting started.

It is, but I've run into a snag, that maybe you or someone else here  
can help with.  At the start of part 2 of the tutorial, you suggest  
installing "simplejson" with easy-install.  I've never even heard of  
easy-install before, but apparently it didn't work for me:

IA-J1:books> sudo easy_install simplejson
Password:
Searching for simplejson
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/simplejson/
Reading http://undefined.org/python/#simplejson
Best match: simplejson 2.0.1
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/simplejson/simplejson-2.0.1.tar.gz#md5 
=ee2d74d695dc63d188fc3d3c6aa0d90a
Processing simplejson-2.0.1.tar.gz
Running simplejson-2.0.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/ 
easy_install-eXZ5SF/simplejson-2.0.1/egg-dist-tmp-Ct1pY4
No eggs found in /tmp/easy_install-eXZ5SF/simplejson-2.0.1/egg-dist- 
tmp-Ct1pY4 (setup script problem?)

...
IA-J1:MetaWindow> python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Feb  4 2008, 21:48:13)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import metaweb
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
   File "metaweb.py", line 41, in <module>
     import simplejson    # JSON serialization and parsing
ImportError: No module named simplejson

Apparently easy_install wanted to find some eggs?  I don't know how to  
make sense of this, or how to fix it.  For what it's worth, "locate  
simplejson" on the command line returns no results.  Any tips?

Thanks,
- Joe