Info on converting over installed Python packages to non-Apple Python for those who are newbies or are not gurus (includes me):
Bob Ippolito was right. When you upgrade to a non-Apple python you have to re-install all the "add-on" packages like Numeric. You also have to set your paths in the Environment.plist in ~/.MacOSX since any .pth files you formerly used in the Apple distribution directories will not be used in the upgrade. You can get new versions of packages to install from Bob Ippolito's site: http://pythonmac.org/packages/. Just be sure to choose the Framework builds for the system you have on your machine (Panther or Tiger). Many thanks to Bob Ippolito for supplying those packages. If anyone upgrades and needs to use the kinds.py package (which gives platform limits and sizes for floats, ints, etc.) see below for more info on how to get this to work in Python 2.4. Reinstalling the kinds package. I assume you already have the package in your Python files directory. You need to reinstall it after you upgrade to Python 2.4. Do this by opening the terminal, cd to the kinds folder and type sudo python setup.py install give the admin password when prompted. That puts the needed files in the right place down in the /Library directory. But you have to set up a path down in that directory so when you run Python it can find the files it needs for kinds (this is in addition to adding the path to the original kinds source directory where you ran the install script above). Create the file kinds.pth with the single line in it, kinds Save and move this to the directory Drive/Library/Framework/Python.framework/Version/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages. That should do it. -- Cheers, Lou Pecora Code 6362 Naval Research Lab Washington, DC 20375 USA Ph: +202-767-6002 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
