On Dec 19, 2004, at 12:37 PM, Jon Schull wrote:
The problem of multiple pythons on OSX is really really crippling. I use visual python (which requires X which requires one python) and I want to work in and run with the standard OS X look and feel.
I spend literally hours every month or two trying (unsuccessfully) to get the various systems to co-exist and the result is not pretty. At the moment, idle doesn't work anywhere, at all. Here's the tip of my iceberg. Suggestions welcome.208-186-56-189:~ jis$ idle
-bash: /sw/lib/python2.3/idlelib/idle.py: Permission denied
208-186-56-189:~ jis$ sudo idle
Password:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/sw/bin/idle", line 3, in ?
from idlelib.PyShell import main
File "/sw/src/root-python23-2.3.4-2/sw/lib/python2.3/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 11, in ?
File "/sw/lib/python2.3/threading.py", line 13, in ?
from traceback import print_exc as _print_exc
ImportError: cannot import name print_exc
The ideal would of course be a single python. But failing that would be a single installer that would put in place the two (or even more) pythons needed in a manner that allowed one to work and install new modules as needed, without risking obscure disasters.
There is definitely something wrong with your Fink installation of Python, which probably has no relevance to having multiple Python installations. I stay miles away from Fink, because terrible things have happened every time I've tried it, so I don't know what the problem is specifically. It's especially troubling to see that "idle" and "sudo idle" has different behavior. I suggest reporting these issues to the relevant maintainers for the Fink packages. That permission denied error looks like something is missing a +x and/or the "idle" shell script is not correct
For what it's worth, I haven't had any such problems with Darwinports and its Python... however, VPython isn't available from Darwinports at this time, so it's probably not of much use to you yet.
-bob
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