Installing py-appscript

Using setuptools

To download and install py-appscript via setuptools, run the following command in Terminal:

sudo easy_install appscript

Setuptools is included in Leopard's standard Python 2.5 installation. For other Python installations, you may need to install setuptools first.

Binary .egg files are currently provided for Python 2.5. For other versions of Python, setuptools will download and build py-appscript from source. Note that building py-appscript from source requires gcc, included in Apple's Developer Tools.

Additional documentation and examples can be found in the latest .tar.gz source release.

Using distutils

Download the latest .tar.gz source release from the Python Package Index and follow the instructions in its README file. Note that building py-appscript from source requires gcc, included in Apple's Developer Tools.

Notes

ASDictionary is required to use py-appscript's built-in help system.

Subversion access

Py-appscript's subversion repository can be checked out anonymously with the following command:

svn checkout http://appscript.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/appscript/py-appscript/