[Pythonmac-SIG] Mac OS 10.3.5 and tkinter. (original) (raw)

Robert Kern rkern at ucsd.edu
Fri Nov 26 23:16:14 CET 2004

Paul Taka wrote:

Oh, I forgot... If I keep #!/usr/bin/python instead of pythonw, it seems to work (almost) I get "SetFrontProcess failed,-606" error each time I click on my TK window. I thought pythonw would fix the problem, but the script doesn't launch and just say from: can't read /var/mail/Tkinter ./hello.py: line 21: syntax error near unexpected token ('_ _./hello.py: line 21: fen1=Tk()'

/usr/bin/pythonw is a shell script, so it can't be directly called by the #! (it will try to interpret hello.py as a shell script, too, not a Python script; thus the syntax errors).

Use

#!/usr/bin/env /usr/bin/pythonw

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