Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] What does it take to run a GUI app?

2014-08-27 Thread Chris Barker
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Aaron Meurer aaron.meu...@continuum.io wrote: you can. but you sure don't want to from the start of your development process. And there are hybrid command-line GuI apps like iPython or anything that wants to pop up, say, a matplotlib graph. So we do need a

[Pythonmac-SIG] What does it take to run a GUI app?

2014-08-22 Thread Chris Barker
Folks, Over on the list for the Anaconda distribution, we've run into a limitation in our understanding of the whole app bundle, etc business. The problem is thus: Anaconda is currently built with the old python / pythonw dichotomy. python is a standard unix-style executable -- great for

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] What does it take to run a GUI app?

2014-08-22 Thread Ned Deily
In article calgmxejczecmap_enqhom-9rma9ubx-z6uytruum3arbdgw...@mail.gmail.com, Chris Barker chris.bar...@noaa.gov wrote: Over on the list for the Anaconda distribution, we've run into a limitation in our understanding of the whole app bundle, etc business. The problem is thus: Anaconda

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] What does it take to run a GUI app?

2014-08-22 Thread Chris Barker
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Aaron Meurer aaron.meu...@continuum.io wrote: It does cause problems. I'm not entirely clear what happens with nested shebang lines, but you can't put #!/Users/aaronmeurer/anaconda/bin/pythonw as your shebang. If you do, it will try to run the script in

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] What does it take to run a GUI app?

2014-08-22 Thread Chris Barker
Thank Ned, Anaconda is currently built with the old python / pythonw dichotomy. On vanilla OS X python builds, there is no difference between python and pythonw; that's been the case going back many years. exactly -- I was quite surprised when i ran into this with Anaconda -- I had