On 25 Oct, 2009, at 23:27, Robin wrote: > On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 10:15 PM, William Kyngesburye > <wokl...@kyngchaos.com> wrote: >> Something I noticed with the Apple Python is that /usr/bin/python (which is >> it's own binary and not a symlink) *only* responds to the env variable >> VERSIONER_PYTHON_PREFER_32_BIT (I think that's the name). While >> /usr/bin/python2.6 (which is a symlink to the executable in the framework) >> *only* responds to the arch command. > > Thanks - I see that behaviour too now I checked. > >> So, it looks like you configuration is using the env variable method. I >> don't compile my own Python, so I don't know if there is a configuration >> option to set this behavior. > > I tried but I can't get the environment variable to have any effect on > the self-built python.org version.
That's because Apple's pythonw is a completely different executable than the python.org one. I'm working on a replacement for pythonw in 2.7 and 3.2 that will allow you to use the arch command to select an architecture. That version also works with 2.6, but I don't think I'll be able to sneak it into 2.6.5 because the new executable is not 100% backward compatible with the current one. Ronald
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