On 15 Mar, 2011, at 11:57, Christopher Barker wrote: > On 3/15/11 6:11 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: >>> Once deployed as .app using py2app, I am not getting all the env vars that >>> are >>> available to users. > >> That's on OSX issue, and not a problem in py2app. Most of the environment >> variables you see from the command-line are initialized by the shell and/or >> Terminal.app and are not available to GUI applications. You'd see the same >> issue with a native application. > > Indeed, and we did explain that to the OP on the wxPython list.
It would have been nice if he'd mentioned that in his post here. > > However, it seems that it is fairly common that folks write applications that > call command line utilities. In this case, they need the environment to be > set up the way that it is in the user's default shell. I suggest that it > might be nice to have an option for py2app to build an app that will > initialize the environment that a user would see in their standard shell. That is non-trivial, especially when the user has specified a different shell in the Terminal preferences. To get the right environment you'd probably have to: * Reverse engineer the default shell created by Terminal.app * Parse the environment plist file (I don't recall the name, but have an PyObjC example that uses is) * Run 'login -f USER' in a subprocess, then run the "env" command using that shell All of this should be done in a bootstrap script (in py2app), and code should then be added to the distutils command to ensure that the script gets included when an option is specified (lets say, "--emulate-shell-environment") All of this is definitely possible, but I don't know when I'll get around to doing it. If someone can write a function that fetches the information I can easily integrate it into py2app. This should be a function that takes no arguments and updates os.environ, something like: .. def _emulate_shell_environment(): .. import os .. os.environ['KEY'] = 'value' BTW. I've filed issue #15 for this, to ensure the request doesn't get lost (<https://bitbucket.org/ronaldoussoren/py2app/issue/15/py2app-should-have-way-to-emulate-shell>) Ronald _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG
