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Python for Mac OS X?

Jeff Koftinoff jeff at statusbar.com
Sun Oct 22 04:44:28 EDT 2000 
"Steven D. Majewski" wrote:

>
> The latest 2.0c1 release of Python will build "out-of-the-box" on
> Darwin or OSX with either the Darwin or Apple development tools.
> Use:
>  ./configure --with-dyld --with-suffix=.x
>  make
>
> then:
>  su
>  ...
>  make install
>
> You can get the source from www.pythonlabs.com
>
> As far as I know, no one has yet built a version with support for
> Tkinter, pyGtk, WxWindows or any other GUI code. ( We're working
> on that next. )
>
> The MacPython build for OS<9 will work in the OS9 environment on
> OSX, and will give you both Tkinter and native Mac toolbox support.
> ( I haven't done any exhaustive testing -- I just installed it and
> ran a couple of scripts to see that it [mostly] worked. )
>

Very cool, Python 2.0 works for me on Mac OSX PB...

Now, what would be involved in using SWIG or something to make the Cocoa
objective-c api available via python? I think it would be much nicer to use
python for cocoa apps than java or objective c...

jeff koftinoff
jeffk @ jdkoftinoff.com
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