On 4-6-2012 0:01, Janet Heath wrote: > > Thanks Alain. I should have a compiler on my Mac OS X Lion. I am thinking > that it > isn't set in my $PATH variable. I don't know where the $PATH is set at. I > will > check to see if their is a binary.
You'll have to have the Apple Developer tools (xcode) installed to get a c-compiler, but maybe that's the case on your mac already. (Weird though, it should add gcc -the compiler- to the PATH by itself, I don't recall having to change that myself.) In any case, there is a .dmg with a binary installer for Python 2.7.3 available for download at python.org [1] so there should not really be a need to compile it yourself. If you really do need to compile it yourself, consider using Homebrew [2] to install it, instead of downloading the source and compiling it manually. With homebrew it's a simple 'brew install python' and a few minutes later it's done. It will be lot easier to install 3rd party library dependencies this way too. Irmen. [1] http://python.org/download/releases/2.7.3/ [2] http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
