Spyder in the dock and as app for Mac OSX

[Petrush]

Hi,

I managed to make a dock-icon / app for Mac osx using the instructions
for IPython at http://neuroscience.telenczuk.pl/?p=400

Basically:

Create a directory Spyder.app
Create a subdir "Contents"

In "Contents" create a Info.plist containing:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://
www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>CFBundleIconFile</key>
<string>spyder</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Create two directories in "Content": "MacOS" and "Resources"

In MacOS put the startup file (not sure the PYTHONPATH stuff is needed
really):

#! /opt/local/bin/python

import os
executable = '/opt/local/bin/spyder'
arguments = [executable]
os.environ["PYTHONPATH"]=os.getenv("PYTHONPATH", "")
os.execve(executable, arguments, os.environ)

In Resources dir, create an icon using XCode and iconcomposer.

With this spyder can be launched as an app, and made to stay in the
dock.

[mangecoeur]

When you do it this way do you also get the python rocket icon: in the dock? I have a way to do the same thing using apple script but when it runs you get the app icon and the rocket icon in the dock

[Petrush]

On Apr 24, 11:45 am, mangecoeur <jon.chambers3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When you do it this way do you also get the python rocket icon: in the dock? I have a way to do the same thing using apple script but when it runs you get the app icon and the rocket icon in the dock

Yes the rocket icon is still there, and plot windows are not
associated with the spyder app.

[Ryan Clary]

I think this deserves some clarification…
When starting Spyder from the terminal, a rocket icon appears in the dock for Spyder.
If Spyder starts an iPython interpreter, then two rockets appear, one for Spyder and one for the iPython interpreter.

If you implement the application mentioned before (thanks, by the way!), then a rocket icon does NOT appear in the dock for Spyder, but a rocket icon will appear for the iPython interpreter.

Ryan Clary

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[mrclary]

I have a lot of environment variables set in /etc/profile and ~/.profile which I need passed through to the Spyder environment. When starting from the terminal, this is not a problem because the python environment of Spyder inherits from the bash environment (which sources /etc/profile and ~/.profile). However, in your script, since python is run from a non-interactive shell (OS application startup), the profile files are not sourced. To solve this problem I modified the script as follows:

#! /opt/local/bin/python

import os

import subprocess

envstr = subprocess.check_output('source /etc/profile; source ~/.profile; printenv', shell=True)

env = [a.split('=') for a in envstr.strip().split('\n')]

os.environ.update(env)

executable = '/opt/local/bin/spyder'

arguments = [executable]

os.execve(executable, arguments, os.environ)

the check_output executes the source commands, after which I tell it to output all the environment variables which are then returned as a single string. The string is parsed into key-value pairs and used to update the os.environ dictionary.

Ryan Clary

[Petrush]

Thanks for the clarification!

Somehow I do not see these tasks as separately visible in windows /
linux (not completely sure).

When python programs are launched from the terminal they seem to have
no rocket icon either? Could the tasks be launched this way instead
somehow?

Regards

[Nate O]

What's the file appending for the startup script that is put into
MacOS?

[Ryan Clary]

It does not require an extension, only executable permissions.

Ryan Clary
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On May 8, 2012, at 9:40 PM, Nate O <nathan.o...@gmail.com> wrote:

> What's the file appending for the startup script that is put into
> MacOS?
>