General installation help: 6:30-8:00PM Tuesday & Wednesday in Open Spaces.
These are important information for all participants from the instructor.
Please read this carefully.
Please download the example source code. We will need it in the tutorial.
It is essential that you install the needed software before the tutorial. Please do this well in advance at least the day before. There will be no time during the tutorial to do this.
You need:
Some of these can be installed with the package manager of your operating system or via pip. Note: psyco is optional and works only for 32-bit systems with Python <= 2.6. Don't install it if your system does not fit this requirments.
More details at the tutorial web page.
Please ask me if anything needs clarification. mmueller [at] python-academy [dot] de
Mike Müller
Extra notes relevant only to Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) from a user who worked around the problem:
OS/Setup:
Tried to install wxPython with Homebrew, MacPorts, and manual source compile. None of these worked this past weekend. Homebrew and MacPorts are having issues with the new Xcode 4.3 layout. The source code also links to the older layout of Xcode. However, installing the pre-built binary [1] worked. FYI, it had a side-effect of changing permissions in /usr/local, which affected Homebrew.
wxPython explicitly checked to see if the python version being ran was a Framework [2] version. That is, I couldn't create a virtualenv for it and run it that way. I then installed ez_setup.py, pip, squaremap, and runsnakerun [3, 4, 5, 6] against the Framework version. Running python -c 'import wx' worked as expected.
The last issues I had was a Traceback in runsnake [6]. After reading the source, runsnake was looking for an environmental variable called either 'home' or 'appdata'. One of these had to be set to a directory containing a sub-directory called ".config". So prior to executing runsnake, I did a mkdir -p ~/Documents/PyCon/245/.config and set 'appdata' to ~/Documents/PyCon/245. As a final test, I profiled some setup.py and ran runsnake. It worked! [7].
[1] http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wxpython/wxPython2.9-osx-2.9.3.1-cocoa-py2.7.dmg
[2] /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7
[3] sudo python ez_setup.py
[4] sudo easy_install pip
[5] sudo pip install squaremap runsnakerun
[6]
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File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/runsnakerun/homedirectory.py", line 69, in appdatadirectory
raise OSError( """Unable to determine user's application-data directory""" )
OSError: Unable to determine user's application-data directory
[7] python -m cProfile -o ${appdata}/test.profile setup.py --help-commands && runsnake ${appdata}/test.profile