Re: [Visualpython-users] avoid dueling pythons on tiger

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

That would be a very big step forward in lots of ways....
Is it clear that this requires understanding of VPython internals?

On Jun 7, 2005, at 10:16 AM, Bruce Sherwood wrote:


> Maybe a Mac expert will step forward and make a version of Visual  
> that can be driven by the native Mac Python? After all, OpenGL  
> doesn't need X11, it's just that lacking Mac-specific expertise the  
> only way we could get VPython running on Mac OSX was to piggyback  
> off the Linux/Unix version. What is needed is really just one file,  
> equivalent to wgl.cpp which handles Windows aspects (creating the  
> graphics window, handling keyset and moust inputs, etc.). Is there  
> anyone in the VPython commmunity who could write macgl.cpp?
>
> Bruce Sherwood
>
> Martin Costabel wrote:
>
>
>> (cross-post removed as I can't and won't post on these other groups)
>> Jon Schull wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Please forgive the cross-post.   I think this is a cross group  
>>> issue.
>>>
>>> I've newly installed Tiger and would like to avoid the dueling  
>>> pythons problem that plagued me with 0SX 10.3.  It would be nice  
>>> to be running just one python, but I suppose that would be asking  
>>> too much?
>>>
>>>
>> Since there is now a Tk framework and tkinter on Tiger, it would  
>> indeed be feasible to rely much more than before on the system- 
>> installed python.
>> But if you want a python that understands X11, I guess you still  
>> have to install your own (from Fink, in my case). The only problem  
>> with several python versions is to keep your site-packages in the  
>> right places and to define the environment variables correctly so  
>> that the python you want to use can find the site-packages that it  
>> needs to find.
>>
>>
>>> I installed Bob's MacPython 2.4.1 from http://undefined.org/ 
>>> python/ Double clicking the apps works fine.  But when I type  
>>> "python" from terminal I get python Apple's python 2.3.5.
>>>
>>>
>> This would be a PATH problem. You have to make sure that the  
>> directory that holds the python you want to use is found first in  
>> your PATH.
>>
>>
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