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.

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.

Notes

Building py-appscript from source requires the gcc compiler, included in Apple's Xcode developer tools. You can find an Xcode installer on your Mac OS X installation disk, or download the latest version from Apple's website.
Mac OS X 10.6 users: If you are using python.org's Python framework distributions, you will need to install the Mac OS X 10.4u SDK (a non-default option in the Xcode 3.2 installer) before you can build py-appscript for those distributions. 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 as necessary; Python 2.6.3 and 3.1.1 will not. To force Python to use gcc 4.0, run export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.0 before running the install command. Alternatively, you may prefer to build your own Python framework using the 10.5 or 10.6 SDK.
easy_install users: Python 2.6.3 does not work correctly with setuptools; this and other bugs are addressed in 2.6.4.
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 related 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