On Dec 17, 4:33 am, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: > In article > <183af5d2-e157-4cd6-bec6-8997809e1...@d21g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, > > Mensanator <mensana...@aol.com> wrote: > > Oh, I don't know, maybe because I'm thinking about > > buying one and seeing 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 directories > > on the model in the store made me wary. > > That's odd since, AFAIK, Apple has never released an OS X with Python > 2.4.
Hmm...I was poking around in the finder on a display of new iMacs at Best Buy last saturday. I searched for "python" and it took me to a directory listing with three items: Python 2.3 Python 2.4 Python 2.5 It's possible that Python 2.6 is located somewhere else. I assume that Snow Leopard was installed, but I didn't actually check that. > > Current Apple systems ship with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard. 10.6 > includes a Python 2.6.1 (64-bit/32-bit) and a Python 2.5.4 (32-bit > only). The previous release, 10.5, shipped with 2.5 and 2.3. But, not > to worry, if you need other versions, you can download OS X installers > from python.org. > > > >http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.1.1/http://www.python.org/f... > > > on/3.1.1/python-3.1.1.dmg > > > This tells me nothing. > > That's the disk image for the OS X Python 3.1.1 installer. But it doesn't say whether that disk image is compatible with Snow Leopard and I don't take such things for granted. > Official > binary installers for OS X are provided on python.org for every final > Python release. > > > > or (for MacPorts fans): > > > > $ sudo port install python31 > > > And since I haven't got one, this also tells me nothing. > > http://www.macports.org/ > > "The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design > an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either > command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X > operating system." Ok, now I know. Thanks for the information. > > -- > Ned Deily, > n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
