Re: [Pyobjc-dev] [Pythonmac-SIG] PyObjC and macOS 10.12 (Sierra)

[Andrew J. <a.h...@gm...>]

On 11/09/2016 20:57, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
>
>> On Sep 11, 2016, at 3:12 AM, Andrew Jaffe <a.h...@gm...
>> <mailto:a.h...@gm...>> wrote:
>>
>> If I do the usual "pip --upgrade" for these, it fails, seemingly
>> because of permissions (Apologies, but I don't have access to the
>> messages anymore): it is clearly trying to delete these versions which
>> seem to live in
>> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/. This fails,
>> of course, due to permissions (and system integrity protection).
>
> This is expected, and desired, even.  Don't install packages into your
> system Python.  Make a virtualenv and install pyobjc there, or do a `pip
> install --user`.  That should work fine.

Hi, sorry if I wasn't clear -- this is a python.org install, and the pip 
I'm running comes from that. It shouldn't try to change the 
system-installed packages; it never has in the past, and that's why this 
behavior seems strange.