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

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On Nov 14, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Ian Bell wrote:

All,

Got pygtk to build without problems on 10.6 Snow Leopard by following the instructions from https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gtk-osx/wiki/PyGtk

I ran the terminal commands:

jhbuild bootstrap --ignore-system

jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap

jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-core

jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-python

and the last few lines of my .jhbuildrc-custom file looks like:

build_policy = "updated-deps"

moduleset = "http://github.com/jralls/gtk-osx-build/raw/master/modulesets-stable/gtk-osx.modules"

setup_sdk("10.6", "10.6", ["i386"])

_gtk_osx_use_jhbuild_python=True

append_autogenargs("python", "--with-universal-archs=32-bit --enable-universalsdk=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk")

branches["python"] = "http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.4/Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2"

and I went through the Python unpacking step and everything seemed to be working. But when I run python (with all the different versions on my computer) 

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?

Thanks for any information you can provide.

Just as a guess, you need to start by learning Python. Go read up on $PYTHON_PATH.

Regards,

John Ralls