I want to create a GUI application which should work on Windows and Mac. For this I've chosen Python. The problem is on Mac OS X. There are 2 tools to generate an '.app' for Mac: py2app and pyinstaller. Py2app is pretty good, but it adds the source code in the package. I don't want to. Python Launcher. By default, macOS comes with Python 2.7.3 installed. That’s not the newest version of Python, however. If you’ve installed Python 3, you’ll have access to a few more software tools. These include the Python Launcher, a GUI program that runs Python scripts. If it is installed on your Mac, you can run Python scripts from. Python programming language is used as a basis for a lot of tools and packages for creating a flexible, usable and reliable desktop application with Graphical User Interface - GUI. These applications can be used for the comfortable launching of Your personal code, functionality, visualizing, management and monitoring of Your tasks. Python is not presently supported in Visual Studio for Mac, but is available on Mac and Linux through Visual Studio Code (see questions and answers). To get started: Follow the installation instructions to set up the Python workload. Familiarize yourself with the Python capabilities of Visual Studio through the sections in this article.
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Bob Savage <bobsavage@mac.com>Python on a Macintosh running Mac OS X is in principle very similar to Python onany other Unix platform, but there are a number of additional features such asthe IDE and the Package Manager that are worth pointing out.
4.1. Getting and Installing MacPython¶
Mac OS X 10.8 comes with Python 2.7 pre-installed by Apple. If you wish, youare invited to install the most recent version of Python 3 from the Pythonwebsite (https://www.python.org). A current “universal binary” build of Python,which runs natively on the Mac’s new Intel and legacy PPC CPU’s, is availablethere.What you get after installing is a number of things:-
A
Python3.9
folder in yourApplications
folder. In hereyou find IDLE, the development environment that is a standard part of officialPython distributions; and PythonLauncher, which handles double-clicking Pythonscripts from the Finder. -
A framework
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework
, which includes thePython executable and libraries. The installer adds this location to your shellpath. To uninstall MacPython, you can simply remove these three things. Asymlink to the Python executable is placed in /usr/local/bin/.
The Apple-provided build of Python is installed in/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework
and/usr/bin/python
,respectively. You should never modify or delete these, as they areApple-controlled and are used by Apple- or third-party software. Remember thatif you choose to install a newer Python version from python.org, you will havetwo different but functional Python installations on your computer, so it willbe important that your paths and usages are consistent with what you want to do.IDLE includes a help menu that allows you to access Python documentation. If youare completely new to Python you should start reading the tutorial introductionin that document.If you are familiar with Python on other Unix platforms you should read thesection on running Python scripts from the Unix shell.4.1.1. How to run a Python script¶
Your best way to get started with Python on Mac OS X is through the IDLEintegrated development environment, see section The IDE and use the Help menuwhen the IDE is running.If you want to run Python scripts from the Terminal window command line or fromthe Finder you first need an editor to create your script. Mac OS X comes with anumber of standard Unix command line editors, vim andemacs among them. If you want a more Mac-like editor,BBEdit or TextWrangler from Bare Bones Software (seehttp://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.html) are good choices, as isTextMate (see https://macromates.com/). Other editors includeGvim (http://macvim-dev.github.io/macvim/) and Aquamacs(http://aquamacs.org/).To run your script from the Terminal window you must make sure that/usr/local/bin
is in your shell search path.To run your script from the Finder you have two options:-
Drag it to PythonLauncher
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Select PythonLauncher as the default application to open yourscript (or any .py script) through the finder Info window and double-click it.PythonLauncher has various preferences to control how your script islaunched. Option-dragging allows you to change these for one invocation, or useits Preferences menu to change things globally.
4.1.2. Running scripts with a GUI¶
With older versions of Python, there is one Mac OS X quirk that you need to beaware of: programs that talk to the Aqua window manager (in other words,anything that has a GUI) need to be run in a special way. Use pythonwinstead of python to start such scripts.Download Python For Mac
With Python 3.9, you can use either python or pythonw.4.1.3. Configuration¶
Python on OS X honors all standard Unix environment variables such asPYTHONPATH
, but setting these variables for programs started from theFinder is non-standard as the Finder does not read your.profile
or.cshrc
at startup. You need to create a file~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
. See Apple’s Technical Document QA1067 fordetails.For more information on installation Python packages in MacPython, see sectionInstalling Additional Python Packages.4.2. The IDE¶
MacPython ships with the standard IDLE development environment. A goodintroduction to using IDLE can be found athttp://www.hashcollision.org/hkn/python/idle_intro/index.html.4.3. Installing Additional Python Packages¶
There are several methods to install additional Python packages:-
Packages can be installed via the standard Python distutils mode (
pythonsetup.pyinstall
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Many packages can also be installed via the setuptools extensionor pip wrapper, see https://pip.pypa.io/.
4.4. GUI Programming on the Mac¶
There are several options for building GUI applications on the Mac with Python.PyObjC is a Python binding to Apple’s Objective-C/Cocoa framework, which isthe foundation of most modern Mac development. Information on PyObjC isavailable from https://pypi.org/project/pyobjc/.The standard Python GUI toolkit istkinter
, based on the cross-platformTk toolkit (https://www.tcl.tk). An Aqua-native version of Tk is bundled with OSX by Apple, and the latest version can be downloaded and installed fromhttps://www.activestate.com; it can also be built from source.wxPython is another popular cross-platform GUI toolkit that runs natively onMac OS X. Packages and documentation are available from https://www.wxpython.org.PyQt is another popular cross-platform GUI toolkit that runs natively on MacOS X. More information can be found athttps://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro.4.5. Distributing Python Applications on the Mac¶
The standard tool for deploying standalone Python applications on the Mac ispy2app. More information on installing and using py2app can be foundat http://undefined.org/python/#py2app.4.6. Other Resources¶
The MacPython mailing list is an excellent support resource for Python users anddevelopers on the Mac:Another useful resource is the MacPython wiki:UI Automation. Desktop. Python
GUI toolkit agnostic
autopy - simple, cross-platform GUI automation toolkit. MIT - https://github.com/msanders/autopy/- 432 stars, 102 forks, 2950 monthly downloads at 2015-05-13
- GUI toolkit agnostic
- allows you to move mouse, take screenshots, show alerts, search for bitmaps on-screen
AutoPy - http://www.autopy.org/AutoPy API reference - http://www.autopy.org/documentation/api-reference/AutoPy introduction and tutorial - https://github.com/msanders/autopy/#readmeautopy3 - fork of autopy to support Python 3 - https://github.com/Riamse/autopy3pyautogui - cross-platform GUI automation toolkit. BSD - https://github.com/asweigart/pyautogui- 141 stars, 21 forks, 3501 monthly downloads at 2015-03-13
- GUI toolkit agnostic
- allows you to move mouse, take screenshots, show alerts, search for bitmaps on-screen
GUI toolkit aware
Python For Mac
About LDTP- LDTP is a family of cross platform GUI testing tools that works on Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD
- Windows version works with .NET, C++, Java and Qt apps
- Linux version works with Gnome, Qt 4.8+, Java Swing, LibreOffice, Mozilla apps
- Mac version work with ?
- Test scripts can be in Python, Ruby, Java, C#, VB.NET, PowerShell, Clojure, Perl
cobra-winldtp - Cobra Windows version of Linux Desktop Testing Project. MIT - https://github.com/ldtp/cobraPython Mac Desktop App Windows 10
- project on Google Code is obsolete, use GitHub version
- last commit on 2014-10-30 at Google Code, 2015-02-06 at GitHub
- last version is 4.0.0 released at 2013-11-13
- can not be installed with pip, MSI must be used
ldtp wiki - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/pywinauto - Windows GUI automation toolkit. LGPL - https://code.google.com/p/pywinauto/- 188 stars, 432 monthly downloads at 2015-05-13
- deps: pywin32
pywinauto-64 - pywinauto fork that supports 64/32-bit Python from 2.6 to 3.4. LGPL - https://github.com/vasily-v-ryabov/pywinauto-64- 9 stars, 7 forks at 2015-05-13
- last commit on 2015-04-29
obsolete. pywinauto-64bit - another fork of pywinauto - https://github.com/mpaf/pywinauto-64bit- 7 stars, 3 forks at 2015-05-13
- last commit on 2014-03-07
- pywinauto-64 or vanilla pywinauto should be used instead of this fork
Create Desktop App Using Python
swapy - GUI automation helper to be used with pywinauto - https://code.google.com/p/swapy/Pyautoscan - CLI automatation for Ninite, ESET, Malwarebytes, Spybot using pywinauto. MIT - https://github.com/juszczakn/Pyautoscanpywinauto - automatically expored from Google Code - https://github.com/LogicalKnight/pywinauto , https://github.com/coandco/pywinautowindows_lettuce_pywinauto - BDD UI Automaton skeleton, using lettuce and pywinauto - https://github.com/johnstoj/windows_lettuce_pywinautoobsolete. pywinauto-x64 - https://code.google.com/r/vasilyvryabov-pywinauto-x64/UISoup - GUI automation toolkit for Windows/Mac. Apache - https://github.com/F1ashhimself/UISoupPython Mac Desktop App Software
- 6 stars, 5 forks, 1098 monthly downloads at 2015-05-13
- last commit on 2015-04-15
- deps: comtypes (pure python)
Python Mac Gui
ui_navigate - UI navigation for automation. PSF - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ui_navigate/1.0.2- 0 stars, 4 forks, 1306 monthly downloads at 2015-05-13
- incomplete or just generic tree library?
Python Windows Desktop App
AXUI - GUI automation toolkit. Apache - https://github.com/xcgspring/AXUI- 8 stars, 1 fork, 943 monthly downloads at 2015-05-13
- drivers: Windows UIA, Selenium, Appium (iOS and Android)
- python 3 compatible
- deps: ply, pyxb, pillow
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