Correct, the "Current" version is just a link to "2.7". Also, the binaries
'/usr/bin/python{,w}" seem to be copies of the
"/System/Library/.../Versions/2.7/bin/python{,w}" files.
/Jean
On Friday, May 29, 2015 at 2:01:05 PM UTC-4, Ned Deily wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> MrJean1 <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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
>
> For compatibility with applications linked on older OS X releases, Apple
> customarily ships more than one version of Python frameworks with OS X.
> There are actually three versions of the system Python frameworks there:
> you should see that "Current" is actually a symbolic link to "2.7". All
> of those versions are shipped as part of OS X 10.7.
>
> --
> Ned Deily,
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