How to uninstall wxpython 2.8 from Mac OSX 10.6

[imperialguy]

Some details of my machine and installed packages before proceeding further:

Mac OSX version: 10.6.6
Python version: Activestate Python 2.7.1
wxpython version: wxpython 2.8 (uses Carbon API hence limited to 32-bit mode arch only)

I installed wxPython2.8-osx-unicode-py2.7 from wxpython website using their .dmg installer file. This package uses the Carbon API and hence is limited to 32-bit mode only. I have to write my applications using "arch -i386" in order to import wx, and due to this limitation I am unable to import certain other packages likes "MySQLdb" which are not available in 32-bit mode. So, my best option is to uninstall wxpython 2.8 and install wxpython 2.9 because version 2.9 uses Cocoa API which has both 32-bit and 64-bit support.

I don't know how to uninstall wxpython2.8 on my Mac OSX. Can anyone please help me?

[Gribouillis]

I don't use Mac OSX, nor Activestate python but, you should be able to see where is your wx package by running

>>> import wx
>>> wx.__file__
'/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/__init__.py'

This should give you the path to the 'site-packages' directory (for me in linux, it is /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages). Now, if you list the files and directories which start with 'wx' in this directory and remove some of them, or all of them, it should uninstall your wxpython.

[imperialguy]

Thank you for the reply. I found out how to uninstall it. There is an uninstall script in the dmg installer that I mounted. I ran that script and it uninstalled the package. It is very unfortunate and annoying that Macs don't ship with uninstallers by default. Also, while the uninstall script was running I saw that wxpython was actually installed in /usr/local/lib/wxPython-unicode-2.8.12.0.