Thanks for requesting clarification. I am running Leopard (10.5.6) I
installed from source - and just used the standard:
./configure
make
make test
sudo make install
I searched the archives of this discussion group, and learned I could
see where all pythons are installed, and here's what things look like
on my system:
DMS-MacBook-2:~ dan$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/python*
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 68 Oct 8 10:31 /usr/local/bin/python -
> ../../../Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/python
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 75 Oct 8 10:31 /usr/local/bin/python-
config -> ../../../Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/
bin/python-config
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 71 Oct 8 10:31 /usr/local/bin/
python2.6 -> ../../../Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/
bin/python2.6
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 78 Oct 8 10:31 /usr/local/bin/
python2.6-config -> ../../../Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/
Versions/2.6/bin/python2.6-config
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1658332 Dec 21 19:40 /usr/local/bin/python3.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1401 Dec 21 19:41 /usr/local/bin/
python3.0-config
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 69 Oct 8 10:31 /usr/local/bin/pythonw
-> ../../../Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/pythonw
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 72 Oct 8 10:31 /usr/local/bin/
pythonw2.6 -> ../../../Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/
2.6/bin/pythonw2.6
As of now, if I type "python" at the terminal, it starts up
interactive python version 2.6
If I type "python3.0", it starts interactive python 3.0
If I type "IDLE" it actually seems to open a window that says "python
shell" and is running python 3.0 (even says IDLE 3.0 above prompt).
But there's no menu for debugging, etc.
So what I'm wondering is:
1. Should I have used altinstall (i.e. did I possibly break something
by just using sudo make install? Can you all tell from those python
version links above if I've screwed things up on my system?).
2. If so, can I undo what I've done?
3. How can I get the full version of IDLE running with the menu bar
across the top?
4. Is there some online resource I could have used to do this
properly? The links from python.org for mac info seems to be a bit
out of date...
Thanks for your help, and I apologize for my ignorance as someone new
to all this.
On Dec 25, 2008, at 1:22 PM, Nehemiah Dacres wrote:
I take it you're installing from source? or from macports? name the
method and we might be able to help you
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Dan <blu...@gmail.com> wrote:
HI everyone. Wondering if anyone can help a newbie. I tried
installing python 3 on my mac and think I messed up a bit:
1. I didn't do the altinstall option. Is this really bad, and
should I uninstall and try again? Right now I have to type
"python3.0" to get it to work at terminal screen
2. If so, how can I uninstall? Would time machine be of any help here?
3. I can't seem to get IDLE to work, especially with Python 3 (when
I run it from terminal it has no menu bar and i think it's using
python 2.x)
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully I didn't
permanently screw up my mac's python installation...
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