Re: python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-22 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Vincent Davisvinc...@vincentdavis.net wrote: I am running python on a mac and when I was getting going it was difficult to setup information. Specifically how modify bash_profile, how pythonpath works and how to set it up. how to switch between python versions.

Re: python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-22 Thread OdarR
On 22 juin, 12:44, Kushal Kumaran kushal.kumaran+pyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Vincent Davisvinc...@vincentdavis.net wrote: I am running python on a mac and when I was getting going it was difficult to setup information. Specifically how modify bash_profile, how

Re: python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-22 Thread OdarR
On 22 juin, 12:44, Kushal Kumaran Have you seen the page athttp://www.python.org/download/mac/and the pages linked from it? As a (usefull) add-on : iPython (a must), I found this page a good help : http://www.brianberliner.com/2008/04/ipython-on-mac-os-x-105-leopard/ Olivier --

Re: python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-22 Thread aberry
Switching between python version Lets assume you have python 2.4.x and now you installed 2.5.x.By default python path will point to 2.4.x. To switch to python 2.5.x, use following commands... cd /usr/bin sudo rm pythonw sudo ln -s /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin/pythonw

Re: python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
aberry wrote: Switching between python version Lets assume you have python 2.4.x and now you installed 2.5.x.By default python path will point to 2.4.x. To switch to python 2.5.x, use following commands... cd /usr/bin sudo rm pythonw sudo ln -s

Re: python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-22 Thread tkp...@hotmail.com
I think a setup guide for the Mac would prove very useful. Earlier this year, I tried installing Python 2.6 on my iMac, and ran into all sorts of problems, largely as a result of the fact that I knew very little about Unix. I finally downloaded and installed the Enthought Python distribution for

Re: python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-22 Thread aberry
thanks for suggestion... what should I put in 'bashrc ' so that I can switch between different version. as python command will always point to one Python framework (lets either 2.4.x or 2.5.x). regards, aberry Diez B. Roggisch-2 wrote: aberry wrote: Switching between python version

Re: python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
aberry wrote: thanks for suggestion... what should I put in 'bashrc ' so that I can switch between different version. as python command will always point to one Python framework (lets either 2.4.x or 2.5.x). if you want to switch, put in there three different lines, and comment that in

Re: python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-22 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Jun 22, 2009, at 8:56 AM, aberry wrote: thanks for suggestion... what should I put in 'bashrc ' so that I can switch between different version. as python command will always point to one Python framework (lets either 2.4.x or 2.5.x). Something like this would work: alias

Re: python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-22 Thread Vincent Davis
tkp...@hotmail.com wrote: I think a setup guide for the Mac would prove very useful. Earlier this year, I tried installing Python 2.6 on my iMac, and ran into all sorts of problems, largely as a result of the fact that I knew very little about Unix. I finally downloaded and installed the

Re: python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-22 Thread Terry Reedy
Kushal Kumaran wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Vincent Davisvinc...@vincentdavis.net wrote: I am running python on a mac and when I was getting going it was difficult to setup information. Specifically how modify bash_profile, how pythonpath works and how to set it up. how to switch

python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-21 Thread Vincent Davis
I am running python on a mac and when I was getting going it was difficult to setup information. Specifically how modify bash_profile, how pythonpath works and how to set it up. how to switch between python versions. How/where to install modules if you have multiple installed versions. I am