Kevin Horton wrote: > I have two scripts - the > program is started by running the GUI script, which calls wx, and > sets up the whole GUI. This script imports another script, which > holds all the functions that perform the calculations that are the > whole purpose of this application. The calculation script reads > several data files, which live in the same directory as the two > scripts. I was using relative paths when opening those data files. > That worked fine if I started the script from the command line. But, > for a reason that I don't yet understand, when using AppleScript, or > Automator, I needed to use os.chdir() to point to the correct > directory before loading the data files.
yes -- where data files lie is always an issue, and , for the most part, the "current directory" concept really makes no sense with a program started from the GUI. For what it's worth, py2app always sets the current dir to some sensible place. I don't remember where off the top of my head, but it's the same place that it puts "data files", which makes things like this easy. > The failure to load the data files did not trigger a traceback, or a > Console message when the script was started with AppleScript. Th could be a function of how you initialize your wx.App -- MyApp = wx.App() defaults to having wx capture the stdout and stderr and try to dump it to a Window. If your app crashes immediately the errors then get dropped. Try" MyApp - wx.App(False) By the way, I think the default has been changed in the latest version -- this is the source of a LOT of questions on the wxPython list. > I had > to resort to putting write statements in my script to log items of > interest to a debug file before I could confirm the cause of the > problem. wx can also re-direct all output to a file, but I don't remember the syntax of that one off the top of me head, something like: wx.App(redirect=filename). > py2app is not available at the link provided on its download page Your best bet is to get it with easy-install now: easy_install py2app should do it. http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall > I did try py2app from the Fink > distribution. I wouldn't expect that to work at all -- they really have one? strange. -Chris _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
