[Pythoncard-users] Mac resourceEditor/layoutEditor won't launch

[Brad A. <bra...@ma...>]

I've gotten back into trying to get my PythonCard app to run on Mac, 
and find myself getting stuck on launching resourceEditor.py or 
layoutEditory.py.  The problem seems like it should be easy to solve; 
I must be missing something obvious.

I installed PythonCard .82 using "sudo python setup.py" install, 
where Python is the built-in Python 2.3.5 bundled with Mac OS 10.4.x 
(Tiger). I have wxPython 2.6.3 installed but PythonCard seems to 
ignore it and use the 2.5.3 bundled version of wx.

The problem seems to be with importing the module "helpful" within 
PythonCard. Here is the transcript:

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oms-ballen:/Library/Python/2.3/site-packages/PythonCard/tools/resourceEditor 
ballen$ pythonw resourceEditor.py
wx.PlatformInfo: ('__WXMAC__', 'wxMac', 'unicode', 'wx-assertions-on')
wx.VERSION: (2, 5, 3, 1, '')
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "resourceEditor.py", line 20, in ?
     from modules import backgroundInfoDialog
   File 
"/Library/Python/2.3/site-packages/PythonCard/tools/resourceEditor/modules/backgroundInfoDialog.py", 
line 7, in ?
     from PythonCard import dialog, model, util, helpful
ImportError: cannot import name helpful
oms-ballen:/Library/Python/2.3/site-packages/PythonCard/tools/resourceEditor 
ballen$ python
Python 2.3.5 (#1, Oct  5 2005, 11:07:27)
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1809)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>  import PythonCard
>>>  import PythonCard.model
wx.PlatformInfo: ('__WXMAC__', 'wxMac', 'unicode', 'wx-assertions-on')
wx.VERSION: (2, 5, 3, 1, '')
>>>  import PythonCard.helpful
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: No module named helpful
>>>  ^D


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If I change directory to the "site-packages", I can import 
PythonCard.helpful. However, I still can't launch resourceEditor.py 
or layoutEditor.py


oms-ballen:/Library/Python/2.3/site-packages/PythonCard/tools/resourceEditor 
ballen$ cd ../..
oms-ballen:/Library/Python/2.3/site-packages/PythonCard ballen$ cd ..
oms-ballen:/Library/Python/2.3/site-packages ballen$ python
Python 2.3.5 (#1, Oct  5 2005, 11:07:27)
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1809)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>  import PythonCard.helpful
>>>  ^D


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Thanks for any help you provide on this!