Re: [Visualpython-users] success on 10.3 yet?

[Jon S. <js...@so...>]

I'm happy to report that yesterday, after a fresh install of 10.3,  
Kelvin Chu's instructions
> http://www.uvm.edu/~kchu/?Page=VPython/ 
> BuildingVPython.html&SM=miscsubmenu.html
produced an apparently healthy vpython.

There were a few hiccups.
> * The very latest versions of 10.3 and/or X11 make  bash  the default  
> shell
>
> * The startup script /sw/bin/init.sh doesn't get executed  
> automatically.
>> * As a result,  I had to use "/sw/bin/fink..." rather than just  
>> "fink..."   (The fink directory ( /sw/bin ) is not on the full path)
>>> (I have yet to set the default path successfully.  I think I need to  
>>> tweak .xinitrc as per http://www.misplaced.net/fom/X11/39.html))
>
> * The bash equivalent of "rehash" appears to be "hash"
>
The python IDE that comes up is X-ish of course, and so keybindings for  
commands like Open File  use control -O  rather than the OS X  
command-O.  So I'm trying to get quickeys to make the substitutions for  
me.

I've also found that I can run vpython scripts from OS X environments  
such as that created by voodoopad if I programmatically set the python  
interpreter to /swbin/python,  set the  pypath, and set the display  
variable for the X server.  Thus, this works is X11 is running  
concurrently.

> #!/sw/bin/python
> import sys
> sys.path=['/sw/lib/python2.3/site-packages/visualdemos',
> '/sw/lib/python2.3/idlelib',
> '/sw/lib/python23.zip',
> '/sw/lib/python2.3', '/sw/lib/python2.3/plat-darwin',
> '/sw/lib/python2.3/plat-mac',
> '/sw/lib/python2.3/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages',
> '/sw/lib/python2.3/lib-tk',
> '/sw/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload',
> '/sw/lib/python2.3/site-packages',
> '/sw/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Numeric']
>
> import os
> os.putenv('DISPLAY',':0.0')
>
> from visual import *
> box()
>
> """
> This program works if X11 is running on the system at runtime.
> """

Which has me wondering whether the OS X can be tweaked to provide an OS  
X IDE  But I haven't tried that yet.

Anyway this is a much better place to be.  Thanks to everyone for their  
help.


On Dec 29, 2003, at 1:30 PM, Joe Heafner wrote:

> Has anyone succeeded in either building VPython or running complete  
> VPython programs on OS 10.3 yet? This is the only thing hold up my  
> upgrade to Panther on my work Mac.
>
> Cheers,
> Joe Heafner
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