Read,
Thanks for posting a summary, it's nice to have this in the archives.
A few notes:
Read Roberts wrote:
> To get a separate installation of Python 2.3.x under Mac OSX 10.3,
Why not just use 2.4.1 ? Is there a reason you need a 2.3 version?
> Two wrinkles to be aware of:
> 1) location of command-line 'python'
> In a plain Mac OS X 10.3 installation, the command 'python' works because
> the system environment variable "PATH" contains a reference to "/usr/bin",
This is totally standard *nix stuff.
> puts the symbolic
> link under "/user/local/bin",
Also standard. "local" more or less means "not installed by the OS vendor"
> which is not in the default PATH environment variable.
which is too bad. /usr/local/bin is such a standard for user-installed
stuff, I've always wondered why OS vendors don't' just put it in the
default PATH.
> I added a symbolic "python2.3.5" in the directory "/usr/bin,
> pointing to the python program under 'Library/Frameworks/Python.framework",
> so I can invoke this python with the command "python2.3.5".
Here's where you've deviated from the standard: As a rule, you shouldn't
out ANYTHING in /usr/bin. that's Apple's job. As you haven't written
over anything, it's probably not going to cause any problems, but the
usual solution is to add /usr/local/bin to your PATH instead, but adding
a line something like this to your
/Users/YourName/.profile file:
export PATH="usr/local/bin/:$PATH"
That will tell your shell (if it's the default bash shell) to look in
/usr/local/bin for executables before the other places it looks.
-Chris
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