FWIW, I recently upgraded an older MacBook to Mac OS X 10.7.5 and there are 3 different versions of Python in /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework, see:
$ ls /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/ 2.5 2.6 2.7 Current It is unclear whether MacOS X 10.7.5 installed all four of these Python versions. The older one(s) may be left over from the previous MacOS X release on the machine. But all are Apple builds of the Python version, for example: $ python2.7 Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jul 31 2011, 19:30:53) [GCC 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2335.15.00)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> ^D In addition, there is a link in /usr/bin to the python2.X, pythonw2.X and python2.X-config file for each version, see $ ls -la /usr/bin/python* -rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 62752 May 21 19:06 /usr/bin/python -rwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 925 May 21 19:06 /usr/bin/python-config lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 75 May 21 19:06 /usr/bin/python2.5 -> ../../System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin/python2.5 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 82 May 21 19:06 /usr/bin/python2.5-config -> ../../System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin/python2.5-config lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 75 May 21 19:06 /usr/bin/python2.6 -> ../../System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/python2.6 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 82 May 21 19:06 /usr/bin/python2.6-config -> ../../System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/python2.6-config lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 75 May 21 19:06 /usr/bin/python2.7 -> ../../System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 82 May 21 19:06 /usr/bin/python2.7-config -> ../../System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7-config -rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 62752 May 21 19:06 /usr/bin/pythonw lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 76 May 21 19:06 /usr/bin/pythonw2.5 -> ../../System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin/pythonw2.5 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 76 May 21 19:06 /usr/bin/pythonw2.6 -> ../../System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/pythonw2.6 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 76 May 21 19:06 /usr/bin/pythonw2.7 -> ../../System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/pythonw2.7 Perhaps you can reinstall these Pythons from the CD which came with the Mac. Let me know if you need more info. /Jean On Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 11:47:52 PM UTC-4, Laura Creighton wrote: > webmas...@python.org just got some mail from some poor embarrased > soul who ran this program and broke their Python install. > > They are running Mac OSX 10.7.5 > > They are getting: > > Utility has encountered a fatal error, and will now terminate. A > Python runtime could not be located. You may need to install a > framework build of Python or edit the PyRuntimeLocations array in this > applications info.plist file. Then there are two oblong circles. One > says Open Console. The other says Terminate. > > So https://docs.python.org/2/using/mac.html says: > > The Apple-provided build of Python is installed in > /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework and /usr/bin/python, > respectively. You should never modify or delete these, as they are > Apple-controlled and are used by Apple- or third-party software. > > So, I assume this poor soul has done precisely that. > > What do I tell her to do now? > > Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
