On Jan 12, 2005, at 18:41, Chris Barker wrote:
Fei Xu wrote:I am installing PIL on Mac Os X. I ran the command python setup.py build
and get an error messange as below:
Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version mismatch?)
Abort
That looks like the error you get when you have more than one version of Python installed on your system, and OS-X mixes the libraries up. This happens because of the way the python that came with OS-X (2.3.0) was put together.
The easiest solution is to get rid of all pythons except Apple's one. Unless you REALLY need something in a more recent version, it works just fine.
After you remove other Python installations, remove any extension you built while you had multiple Python installations. These extensions are linked incorrectly.
Also, you should be able to get PIL through the Package Manager that comes with the MacPython add-ons package.
Available from <http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython/download.html>, but a new version is these add-ons is coming out Very Soon that incorporates fixes to PackageManager, etc.
If you have other problems, search the Python-Mac mailing list, or post a question there if your question isn't answered in the archives.
Once you have removed other Python(s), install this fix <http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython/PantherPythonFix.dmg> (referenced by <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2004-December/ 012501.html>).
After this fix is installed, it will be safe (well, safer) to have multiple Python installations.
-bob
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