This is a simple example to show how to access the OpenGL 3.2 Core Profile in Mac OS X Lion (or any other OS with support for it) using Python, PyOpenGL, Numpy, and the GLFW Library. GLFW serves as a GLUT replacement, since GLUT doesn't support the GL Context creation for the Core Profile on Mac OS X Lion. Note that a PyOpenGL Version > 3.0.2 is required for this to work (smaller versions seem to have a bug when using the VAO extension). The missing matrix functionallity of OpenGL (< 3.0) is replaced by a tiny library i've written for this example (see hommat.py).

The GLFW bindings for Python were written by Nicolas P. Rougier, but i modified them a tiny bit (see glfw.py). The bindings are written using the python ctypes functionallity and should run with any python distribution on any platform that supports ctypes (i've only tested OSX and Linux). The bindings will look for a binary of GLFW (libglfw.so/.dylib/.dll) in the usual places. You can provide a specific binary by placing the path into GLFW_LIBRARY Environment variable.