i want to open cdr files and i downloaded python but I dont know how to connect it with inkscape

What operating system are you using? The Inkscape package for Windows already includes Python, and I think the same is true for OS X. And on Linux I would expect Python to already be installed anyway.

I use a mac os.
When I open a cdr file

I get the following message:

You need to install the UniConvertor software.
For GNU/Linux: install the package python-uniconvertor.
For Windows: download it from
http://sk1project.org/modules.php?name=Products&product=uniconvertor
and install into your Inkscape's Python location

I downloaded the software and dont know what to do with it; how to install
it

Paul

Op 19-04-10 10:49, sas <email address hidden> schreef:

> Your question #107746 on Inkscape changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/107746
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> sas proposed the following answer:
> What operating system are you using? The Inkscape package for Windows
> already includes Python, and I think the same is true for OS X. And on
> Linux I would expect Python to already be installed anyway.

1) Inkscape on Mac OS X calls the system python binary for extensions, only two python modules (lxml, numpy) are included in the application package (but currently don't work on Snow Leopard - bug #482993).

2) Current Inkscape packages for OS X do not include the uniconvertor python module: you have to install 'UniConvertor' from the command line as any other python module. There is no installer for OS X available (and no Portfile either to allow installation via MacPorts).

<quote>
igor.e.novikov wrote on 2009-08-04:
Unfortunately we have no Apple hardware to provide Mac binaries. But UniConvertor can be compiled under MacOS the same manner like under Linux:

python setup.py build

python setup.py install

So you can include UniConvertor binary package into Inkscape distribution without any problems. Also you can use Python 2.5 and even Python 2.4 to compile UniConvertor binaries.
</quote>

discussed in bug #387946 “UniConvertor called with wrong filename” (comment #16)

…maybe my earlier attempt to answer a similar question has some useful details:
<https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/90463>