On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: > In article > <cag8k2+74cuh6p_mmgvs2hlknreim_iepbq0u7vf9dtpxk4+...@mail.gmail.com>, > Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Apple does (or did) something very useful by not including the stdlib >> source code in OS X's builtin Python, making the system Python so >> hilariously useless for development that no one would attempt it after >> the trick has been discovered. After a few frustrating hours figuring >> out what they've actually done it hits you "OH that Python is not for >> me", you download a working version from python.org, and you're on >> your way. :-P > > FWIW, the stdlib py files are installed as part of the Xcode Command > Line Tools component.
Only half-serious; I come to the same conclusion for different reasons on RHEL or Ubuntu. Plone solves it by just bundling the Python source code to make things predictable. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
