Re: [pygame] pygame/__init__.py error on Mac OS X 10.4

[Bob Ippolito <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 13, 2005, at 3:46 AM, Todd Mortimer wrote:

> I am trying to install from source here using Darwinports, but I  
> took a look at the package pygame-1.7.0-py2.4-macosx10.3.zip  from  
> pythonmac.org (there doesn't appear to be a 10.4 package yet), and  
> I believe it has the same problem.

Generally software built for 10.3 works on 10.4, and the stuff in  
pythonmac packages is no exception.  Packages that are listed in the  
10.4 section are built with 10.4 specific features.

> From the pythonmac package, the file macosx.py in the  
> pygame_platlib_1.7.0.pkg package contains similar lines:
>
> """
>     # about  line 140
>     # running inside a bundle, change dir
>     if (os.getcwd() == '/') and len(sys.argv) > 1:
>         os.chdir(os.path.basedir(sys.argv[0]))  # basedir method  
> does not exist in os.path module
> """
>
> Is the call to os.path.basedir() supposed to be there?

No, surprising that nobody has bothered to report it until now.  I  
had figured it simply wasn't there in 1.7.  Probably because py2app  
changes the directory away from / before pygame.init is called, and  
hardly anyone ever runs scripts from /.  Are you using bundlebuilder  
or something?  If so, don't.

In any case, it should be fixed in CVS.

-bob