How to install EasyGUI on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leop

Question

I would like to install EasyGUI on Mac OS X 10.6, but am running into trouble. Has anyone successfully done this? If so, what explicit set of steps did you follow?

Thank you.

Answer 1

It's hard to know what running into trouble means but, nonetheless, something like this seems to work on 10.6:

mkdir test_easygui
cd test_easygui
curl http://easygui.sourceforge.net/current_version/easygui_v0.93.tar.gz | tar xz
/usr/bin/python2.6 easygui.py

EDIT:

Unfortunately, the EasyGui download does not include a setup.py that would allow you to easily install it in the normal Python manner. To be a good citizen in the Python World, it should. Fortunately, it is easy to supply one. In the download directory (test_easygui in the example above), create the following text file and name it setup.py:

from distutils.core import setup
setup(name='easygui',
      version='0.93',
      py_modules=['easygui'],
     )

Then run the following command:

sudo /usr/bin/python2.6 setup.py install

Now you should be able to run the demo from any directory by:

/usr/bin/python2.6 -m easygui

and you should be able to just import easygui in your own python modules. By the way, this process should work on any supported python platform (not just OS X) and with any supported python interpreter you have installed: just substitute the proper path for /usr/bin/python2.6. (If you don't have any extra pythons installed on OS X 10.6, typing just python should be sufficient.)