py-appscript : install

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 and Snow Leopard's standard Python 2.6 installation. For other Python distributions, you may need to install setuptools first. (Note: Python 2.6.3 does not work correctly with setuptools; this and other issues are addressed in 2.6.4.)

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

Mac OS X 10.6 users: You will need to install the Mac OS X 10.4u SDK (included in the Xcode 3.2 installer) before you can build py-appscript for python.org's Python framework distributions, which are built with the 10.4 SDK. In addition, gcc 4.0, not the default 4.2, must be used to build extensions against the 10.4 SDK (Python 2.6.4 will automatically use gcc 4.0).
If easy_install produces errors like this: "No eggs found in /tmp/... (setup script problem?)", you may need to update setuptools first (sudo easy_install -U setuptools).
ASDictionary is required to use py-appscript's built-in help system.

Subversion access

To check out py-appscript's subversion repository:

svn checkout \
    https://appscript.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/appscript/py-appscript/trunk \
    py-appscript-trunk

To check out the py-aemreceive, py-osascript and py-osaterminology projects for Python 2.x:

svn checkout \
    https://appscript.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/appscript/py-aemreceive/trunk \
    py-aemreceive-trunk

svn checkout \
    https://appscript.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/appscript/py-osascript/trunk \
    py-osascript-trunk 

svn checkout \
    https://appscript.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/appscript/py-osaterminology/trunk \
    py-osaterminology-trunk