Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-17 Thread Robert Kern
Maurice LING wrote: Robert Kern wrote: 3. Apple-installed Python's command line tools are symlinked from /usr/bin to /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework but the OSX installer for Python 2.4.1 places the commandline tools in /usr/local/bin and symlinked to /Library/Frameworks/Python.frame

Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-17 Thread Maurice LING
Robert Kern wrote: 3. Apple-installed Python's command line tools are symlinked from /usr/bin to /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework but the OSX installer for Python 2.4.1 places the commandline tools in /usr/local/bin and symlinked to /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework. So it seems t

Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-16 Thread Robert Kern
Maurice LING wrote: Hi Thomas, It seems that you've cleanly killed the Apple-installed Python, which isn't too bad a thing after all. What I can suggest you do is this... Copy the entire /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework directory from someone and drop it into your system (same place o

Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-16 Thread Maurice LING
Hi Thomas, It seems that you've cleanly killed the Apple-installed Python, which isn't too bad a thing after all. What I can suggest you do is this... Copy the entire /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework directory from someone and drop it into your system (same place of course). I will n

Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-16 Thread Kevin Walzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It's *not* a good idea to delete Apple's system Python. You will probably need to reinstall the OS. In addition to the mailing list that someone else posted (which is a great resource!), here's a good site to check out: http://pythonmac.org/ The site ma

Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-15 Thread Robert Kern
Thomas Nelson wrote: The main thing I would like is to be able to use tkinter with python on my mac. will the command-line-style source allow this? Does it come with IDLE? No. You need a framework version, which can be built from source, but it's best to leave that to people who know what the

Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-15 Thread Thomas Nelson
The main thing I would like is to be able to use tkinter with python on my mac. will the command-line-style source allow this? Does it come with IDLE? How is the fink version different from the source i can download at python.org? Here's the result of the requested commands on my Terminal.

Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-15 Thread Jorl Shefner
If you simply want the latest python to run from the command line, then compiling the source code works fine on the mac. I just installed 2.4.1 on Os 10.3.8 last week without any problems. http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.1/Python-2.4.1.tgz "./configure" "make" "make install" J.S. -- http

Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-15 Thread François Granger
Le 15/04/05 1:54, « Thomas Nelson » <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > I'm on a mac OS X (10.3.8), and I seem to have accidentally destroyed > the default python installation. How should I put it on? Do I need to > use the unix version? any help would be greatly appreciated. There is also a list

Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-14 Thread Maurice LING
I was actually trying to update to the newest python version, and I had read something saying it would conflict with the old version, so I went through and deleted all the folders that had "python" in the name =]. clever of me, huh? now I can't make either the new or the old work. Once again,

Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-14 Thread Thomas Nelson
Maurice LING wrote: I'm using OSX 10.3.8 as well. Just wondering, how did you "destroy" it? What I am thinking is, it may not be as destroyed as you think it might have... cheers maurice I was actually trying to update to the newest python version, and I had read something saying it would confl

Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-14 Thread Maurice LING
Thomas Nelson wrote: I'm on a mac OS X (10.3.8), and I seem to have accidentally destroyed the default python installation. How should I put it on? Do I need to use the unix version? any help would be greatly appreciated. THN Hi Thomas, I'm using OSX 10.3.8 as well. Just wondering, how did yo

new to mac OS10

2005-04-14 Thread Thomas Nelson
I'm on a mac OS X (10.3.8), and I seem to have accidentally destroyed the default python installation. How should I put it on? Do I need to use the unix version? any help would be greatly appreciated. THN -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list