Joe,
Your messages are going only to me. That may be intentional, but if you
want them to go to the list, you need to "reply all".
Joe Strout wrote:
Ah, but I didn't actually install MacPython; I just opened up a terminal
window and typed "Python" and said "ooh, how nice, it's pre-installed!"
What else am I missing because of this procedure? What's the difference
between "MacPython" and "Python which comes pre-installed on a Mac"?
MacPython is simply the python build that you can get from python.org.
With OS-X 10.5, Apple included Python2.5.1, which was the latest at the
time of the release. However, historically, they have never upgraded
python between OS-X releases, which has been the case so for -- the most
recent 2.5 is not 2.5.2, and python2.6 is out now.
There are reasons to use Apple's Python and other reasons to use the
python.org build. In short:
If you want to use py2app and deploy to other versions of OS-X, then use
the python.org build.
If you want to easily install binaries that others build, there are more
for the python.org build.
If you upgrade packages that Apple provides, things may not work right,
either for your code or Apple's.
If you want IDLE, (and TK? ) then apparently you need the python.org
version.
So -- unless the download and install is onerous, or if you need the
couple things Apple provides that are not open-source (I don't remember
what they are -- googling should help), then I'd use the Python.org version
-Chris
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