In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi there > >I started a very long and roundabout process of attempting to install >python 2.3.4 along side my apple-installed 2.3 system. To make a long >story short, I have completely confabulated my environment ( i deleted >the 2.3 binaries and so forth from the system in an attempt to start >things fresh), and now I cannot figure out how to reinstall the base >2.3 Apple python distribution. >Can somebody please point me in the right direction?
Archive and Install of the operating system is the safest. But if you have some kind a backup or know somebody with a similar Mac, you could try reinstalling /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework. You'd have to do this in a way that preserved ownership and permissions. That would probably still leave a few unresolved symbolic links and/or aliases lying around, but is worth a try (especially if you can examine that system and see where the links go). In particular "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/s ite-packages" points to "/Library/Python/2.3" and /usr/bin/python and /usr/bin/pythonw point somewhere useful. But...archive and install is really the safest and it's a chance to clean up a bit of cruft. (But it messes with /usr/local and your web site, so back all that up first). -- Russell P.S. I installed a separate unix/x11 Python 2.4 in /usr/local with no problem using the default install process. However, I wanted X11 Tk support for that, so I first: - moved the aqua Tk (in /Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework, and Tcl.framework) so the installers could not find them - installed unix/x11 tcl and tk (again using the default install process) This results in a perfectly workable python that uses the X11 Tk stuff. It's a minor headache having two pythons -- every package has to be installed twice if you want it available in both pythons. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
