Ok, so I got a MacBook Air. Has OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and Python 2.6.1 already installed.
So I install Xcode, download macports and download gmpy-1.11rc1. Following the instructions in mac_build.txt, I do the following: - sudo /opt/local/bin/port install gmp This works fine. Then I do - python setup.py install This also works (a few warnings, but nothing looked serious). Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jul 7 2009, 23:51:51) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import gmpy >>> gmpy.version() '1.11' python gmpy_test.py Unit tests for gmpy 1.11 on Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jul 7 2009, 23:51:51) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] Testing gmpy 1.11 (GMP 4.3.1), default caching (100, 128) gmpy_test_cvr 151 tests, 0 failures . . . 25 tests in gmpy_test_rnd.__test__.rand 1469 tests in 42 items. 1469 passed and 0 failed. Test passed. Looks like a viable gmpy module for 2.6. What do I do AFTER I install Python 3.1? Just running python3.1 from the same directory doesn't work. I've spent the last 5 days trying to figure that out. I hosed it so bad I somehow wrecked the 2.6 version to the point where it won't even load. I just got done doing a factory restore of the entire OS to undo everything I did. Re-did all the above and got it back working. Haven't re- installed 3.1 yet. Anbody have any idea how to make this work? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list