On 19-Nov-09, at 5:41 PM, Scot Denhalter wrote: > Yes, I am using the Snow Leopard OSX. Should I be coding through > the Xcode > interface and not Python's IDLE shell?
Using the Xcode IDE is not necessary and probably far from optimal for what you're doing; however Xcode installs all of the command line tools (gcc, g++, make) that are typically needed to build packages. > You distinguish between system wide installation and user > installation. You > may have seen from my post to Eric, that I found and installed .dmg > downloads for numpy and matplotlib. I have tried to figure out > where these > installed themselves, but I haven't found them in the user folder. > I assume > they have been installed system wide. Is this going to be a problem? The DMGs install in system-wide directories, /Library/Frameworks/ Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages I'm guessing. The --user stuff should be used if you are installing against the Python that Apple ships with OS X. They also ship an old & crusty version of NumPy, I think. Unless Apple has relocated their Python install for 10.6 (it used to be in /System) it looks like you downloaded Python from Python.org since it's in /Library, in which case Pierre's fears about messing up the system install aren't a problem. David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
