Issue 1056561: python / pythonw replacement in C (original) (raw)

I rewrote the shell script pythonw2.4 (which usually lives in /usr/local/bin) in C. With a link from python to this C program, users can: a) Run "python" to use the framework version of Python, which exists in a valid application bundle (unlike the current python in /usr/local/bin); b) Use "#!/usr/local/bin/python" as the first line in python scripts (unlike the current pythonw in /usr/local/bin, which Mac OS X interprets to be a shell script). Hence, (I believe) this C program avoids the problems with python and pythonw that are in /usr/local/bin now. The setup in /usr/local/bin would be:

lrwxr-xr-x python -> python2.4 -rwxr-xr-x python2.4

where python2.4 is the C program calling /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/bin/python with the appropriate command-line arguments.

Some modification of the C code may be needed for it to be consistent with the Python installation process. Note also that for the non-framework build, python2.4 can just be a link (as it is now).