I'd rather not have to download and install them as I don't want to be installing them into my actual system, so can someone please tell me whether the MacOS X dmg installers provided from www.python.org are still not full universal builds. That is, that the Python framework component only contains 32 bit architecture images and not also 64 bit architecture images.
Am interested in Python 2.5.4, 2.6.1 and 3.0.1. The output below is actually from Python provided with MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard), but is representative of what I would want to see, just for the python.org one under /Library instead. $ file /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/ Python /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/Python: Mach-O universal binary with 4 architectures /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/Python (for architecture ppc7400): Mach-O dynamically linked shared library ppc /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/Python (for architecture ppc64): Mach-O 64-bit dynamically linked shared library ppc64 /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/Python (for architecture i386): Mach-O dynamically linked shared library i386 /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/Python (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit dynamically linked shared library x86_64 So, do the official Python builds have 64 bit support in the framework library? And yes I do know that the 'python' executable itself on MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard) standard Python is only 32 bit, but whether the framework has 64 bit is an issue because when you use mod_python or mod_wsgi with standard MacOS X Apache, Python is run as 64 bit and so the 64 bit code needs to be in the framework library. Am getting tired of having to explain to people that it is the python.org installers that are deficient and to compile from source code or use Apple version instead. If this still is an issue, then I'll log a bug report so that full support is included in the future. Thanks. Graham -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
