Re: [Gtk-osx-users] Selecting Python installation for PyGtk

[Richard Procter <richard n procter gmail com>]

Hi Ian, 

On 15/11/2010, at 2:43 PM, Ian Bell wrote:

> [snip]
> 
> import pygtk 
> 
> fails.  I can see that the PyGtk is hiding in ~/gtk . How do I get the pygtk files to be found by my Python installation so that I can sucessfully use PyGtk on OSX?

The python sys.path needs to include pygtk, which a 'jhbuild shell' session achieves (amongst other things) by setting the PYTHONPATH environment variable appropriately.

regards, 
Richard. 

For example, on my system I have a small script that lets me work with multiple trees each in their own 'home jail'. 

"buildshell.sh"

#!/bin/bash
ROOT=/Volumes/Vault/unstable

export PATH=${ROOT}/.local/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin  # .*sbin probably unnecessary 
export HOME=${ROOT} 
export IS_BUILDSHELL=1
bash 

-- 
".bashrc" in /Volumes/Vault/unstable to help keep track of what's happening. 

export PS1='\u@\h:\w\n\$ '
if [ -n "$IS_BUILDSHELL" ]; then export PS1="[buildshell - unstable/intel/10.6] $PS1" ; fi
if [ -n "$JHBUILD_PROMPT" ]; then export PS1="$JHBUILD_PROMPT $PS1"; fi

-- 

Having built my gtk/pygtk tree by running under a 'buildshell' and following the gtk-osx wiki instructions I can then 

$ jhbuild shell 
$ python 
>>> import gtk # note: 'import pygtk; pygtk.require('2.0')' is no longer required as far as I know
>>> gtk.Window()
<gtk.Window object at 0x1c13198 (GtkWindow at 0x87d8b8)>