wxPython installation problem

When wxPython installs it will not install to my main disk Machintosh
HD it ony wants to a thumbdrive or other external disk. This is
useless. I know nothing about wxPyton or Python for that matter but I
have some python programs that I must run and need wxPython to do so.

Thank you for your help,

Ralph

Hi,

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On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Ralphxyz <rhulslander@gmail.com> wrote:

When wxPython installs it will not install to my main disk Machintosh
HD it ony wants to a thumbdrive or other external disk. This is
useless. I know nothing about wxPyton or Python for that matter but I
have some python programs that I must run and need wxPython to do so.

Thank you for your help,

Never seen this happen before.

What version of OSX are you trying to install on?

Cody

I am using OS X 10.6.4 Python 2.6

On drive selection all of my external drives are circled but Macintosh HD is not and can not be selected.

Since it does install to the external hd, can I use it from there?

How would I import it to python?

Thanks for the reply,

Ralph

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On Sep 2, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Cody Precord wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Ralphxyz <rhulslander@gmail.com> wrote:

When wxPython installs it will not install to my main disk Machintosh
HD it ony wants to a thumbdrive or other external disk. This is
useless. I know nothing about wxPyton or Python for that matter but I
have some python programs that I must run and need wxPython to do so.

Thank you for your help,

Never seen this happen before.

What version of OSX are you trying to install on?

Cody

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I don't use mac (I have an aversion for mac and windows)
but I think it should work just fine, it probably sets up an
environment variable that python uses to find it, if not, talk to Robin

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On Sep 3, 7:42 am, Ralph Hulslander <rhulslan...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am using OS X 10.6.4 Python 2.6

On drive selection all of my external drives are circled but Macintosh HD is not and can not be selected.

Since it does install to the external hd, can I use it from there?

How would I import it to python?

I am using OS X 10.6.4 Python 2.6

On drive selection all of my external drives are circled but Macintosh HD is not and can not be selected.

I have no idea why it would not let you choose the main hard drive. Is it nearly full? Are you booted up from the system drive or from one of the external drives?

Since it does install to the external hd, can I use it from there?

How would I import it to python?

You could move everything that gets installed to the external drive over to your system drive after the installer has run. Use the Show Files menu item in the Installer to see a list. Or you could create a .pth file in Python's site-packages dir that contains the path to the location wxPython's package dir, so that will get added to the sys.path and wx will be found when importing.

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On 9/3/10 4:42 AM, Ralph Hulslander wrote:

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Thanks everyone for the help, much appreciated.

Ralph

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On Sep 3, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Robin Dunn wrote:

On 9/3/10 4:42 AM, Ralph Hulslander wrote:

I am using OS X 10.6.4 Python 2.6

On drive selection all of my external drives are circled but Macintosh HD is not and can not be selected.

I have no idea why it would not let you choose the main hard drive. Is it nearly full? Are you booted up from the system drive or from one of the external drives?

Since it does install to the external hd, can I use it from there?

How would I import it to python?

You could move everything that gets installed to the external drive over to your system drive after the installer has run. Use the Show Files menu item in the Installer to see a list. Or you could create a .pth file in Python's site-packages dir that contains the path to the location wxPython's package dir, so that will get added to the sys.path and wx will be found when importing.

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Software Craftsman
http://wxPython.org

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