How to use Pythonw on MacOS?

[JacobBumgarner]

When trying to run a program with Pythonw on MacOS, the default /usr/bin/pythonw which links to pythonw2.7 is called.

Is there some way to run pythonw from the activated virtualenv?

[native-api]

We create shims for whatever executables Python's build produces.
AFAICS in https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Mac/README.rst, a separate pythonw is no longer needed so they stopped producing it some time ago.

[JacobBumgarner]

Hmm - ok. I was able to run the GUI application that I'm working with after reinstalling python with the --enable-framework flag. Specifically, I'm working with DeepLabCut.

There is a crash occurring when using the package's GUI, but I'm not sure whether it's a package issue or a pyenv issue. The crash that I'm running into doesn't occur when using an Anaconda environment. This is leading me to believe that the issue may have something to do with pyenv, but frankly I don't know enough about environment management to say that confidently.

[native-api]

FWIW our issue template has a list of the necessary diagnostic data that we need to diagnose a specific issue with Pyenv.

[JacobBumgarner]

I understand. I hesitated to create an issue for this topic, because I wasn't even sure if it actually was a Pyenv issue. Hopefully that makes sense! If you don't think that I'd be spamming the issues by opening a new ticket for this, I can go ahead and do that.