Re: [Visualpython-users] Errors running Vpython on OSX

[Bruce S. <bas...@un...>]

I vaguely remember Steve Spicklemire finding an arcane problem with the
Numeric module on Mac OSX, that was never resolved and which sounds somewhat
related. Obviously the run environment shouldn't matter. Steve, do you think
there's some kind of connection here?

Bruce

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Burns" <bu...@hv...>
To: "Steve Spicklemire" <st...@sp...>
Cc: <vis...@li...>
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Visualpython-users] Errors running Vpython on OSX


> Hi all.
>
> > This sounds like the problem I saw when trying to run outside the Idle
> > environment. Are you running inside Idle?
>
> Aha!  That's the ticket.  It works fine inside idle.  I actually tried
> idle the first time, but it turns out I was using the wrong one.  Python
> comes with it's own idle in /sw/bin (which was first in the path, before
> /usr/local/bin/idle).  Thanks!  Now I can show my students all the nifty
> things we can do.
>
> So what's so special about the idle environment?  I thought it was just
> window dressing for the python interpreter.  I'm a command-line
> enthusiast (and I edit my programs in vi), so I prefer just running from
> the shell, which works fine in Linux.  Just curious why OS X is so
> different.
>
> Chris