Python interpreter on macOS 12.3

[schoeps]

Apple will finally drop python 2 in macOS 12.3. It's already missing in the current beta. Unfortunately, there is no binary /usr/bin/python but only /usr/bin/python3. Therefore this workflows fails although being python3 compatible (since #111). However, manually correcting the python path in the first line (hash-bang) works for me.

[nimacodes]

Could you advise in which file you are changing the python path? I have the the python environment variable TM_PYTHON in TextMate, but unfortunately this does not seem to work.

[schoeps]

I manually changed the hash-bang from #!/usr/bin/python to #!/usr/bin/python3 in the *.py-files in ~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles/LaTeX.tmbundle/...

(by the way: I hope the maintainers will fix this soon since 12.3 is out)

[nimacodes]

Thanks, I changed the hash-bang but now it seems my homebrew python installation go messed up :D
At least it is now finding the interpreter.

[defjaf]

I am now on Monterey 12.3 and /usr/bin/python has disappeared as expected. I have tried replacing /usr/bin/python with /usr/bin/python3 throughout the bundle -- and it doesn't work. I get errors like ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Foundation'.

However, using /usr/local/bin/python2 does work. On my machine, this is actually a link to a build in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/; I am embarrassed to say I don't remember where this came from -- possibly python.org! But I suspect not all users will have it.

[nimacodes]

I followed @schoeps advise, changed all references from python to python3 and installed pyobjc package.
Now TextMate works as a charm again.

[defjaf]

I wrote:

I have tried replacing /usr/bin/python with /usr/bin/python3 throughout the bundle -- and it doesn't work. I get errors like ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Foundation'.

But @nimacodes wrote:

I ... changed all references from python to python3 and installed pyobjc.

Which is indeed the solution. In particular: /usr/bin/python3 -m pip install pyobjc

[schoeps]

Sorry. I forgot to mention that you need pyobjc. I had it already installed :)

[andreasloe]

Unfortunatively, this does not work for me. I installed pyobjc, updated textmate (and my MacOS as well) and get the following error messages if I run LaTeX (cmd-R)
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/andreasloeffler/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles/LaTeX.tmbundle/Support/bin/texmate.py", line 1014, in status = command_parser.parse_stream() File "/Users/andreasloeffler/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles/LaTeX.tmbundle/Support/lib/Python/parsing.py", line 771, in parse_stream return super(LaTexMkParser, self).parse_stream() File "/Users/andreasloeffler/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles/LaTeX.tmbundle/Support/lib/Python/parsing.py", line 188, in parse_stream function(matching, line) File "/Users/andreasloeffler/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles/LaTeX.tmbundle/Support/lib/Python/parsing.py", line 790, in start_latex fatal_error, number_errors, number_warnings = parser.parse_stream() File "/Users/andreasloeffler/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles/LaTeX.tmbundle/Support/lib/Python/parsing.py", line 611, in parse_stream return super(LaTexParser, self).parse_stream() File "/Users/andreasloeffler/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles/LaTeX.tmbundle/Support/lib/Python/parsing.py", line 195, in parse_stream line = self.get_rewrapped_line() File "/Users/andreasloeffler/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles/LaTeX.tmbundle/Support/lib/Python/parsing.py", line 140, in get_rewrapped_line line = to_utf8(self.input_stream.readline()) File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/codecs.py", line 322, in decode (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 128: invalid continuation byte

[defjaf]

Weird. Do you have any weird characters in your document? Can you run latex on that file outside of TM?

[defjaf]

Perhaps it's worth forking this bundle into a version with the hardcoded python3? Is there any way to force installation of pyobjc or at least give a useful message to users? (How did it work with the old python2 installation? Was pyobjc installed by Apple?)

[andreasloe]

Weird. Do you have any weird characters in your document? Can you run latex on that file outside of TM?
I can run the file outside (using textstudio). I just checked a simple "Hello World" example and this wen through. Only skim shows an error
Found 0 errors, and 0 warnings in this run
165:183: syntax error: Die interne Tabelle ist übergelaufen. (-2707)
(internal table overflow). So this has to do with encoding?

[andreasloe]

(How did it work with the old python2 installation? Was pyobjc installed by Apple?)
It worked smooth, very smooth. pyobic was not installed, I just installed today.

[nilsreiter]

Thanks for posting this!
I followed the above (adjust the shebang, install pyobc) and the compilation now works fine, but syntax highlighting not (fork here). The LaTeX.plist file looks fine, but within TextMate, the bundle editor displays the corresponding grammar as empty.

[dagnolo]

I followed the suggestions above (change python to python3 in the .py files) and now TextMate indeed compiles in latex.
However, it complains when I try to change the latex preferences (I need to change the pdf viewer since TextMate does not support synctex). This is the error message:

Failure running “Preferences…”. Preferences…: /Users/xxx/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles/LaTeX.tmbundle/Support/bin/configure.py: /usr/bin/python3: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted

Any further help? Thanks