On Jan 11, 2006, at 7:14 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: >> Apparently most Tiger users are running Python 2.4 > > I strongly doubt that. Python 2.3.5 is what comes with the stock > distribution; it should be supported.
It is supported, in that when I build a package or an egg I build it for both 2.4 and 2.3 -- but I never use Python 2.3, so those packages get no testing whatsoever. For my own Python packages, I run the test suite with Python 2.3, but that's as far as it goes if it supports 2.3 at all. I use Python 2.4 because it has fewer bugs, better performance, and a couple nice new features that people are starting to take advantage of. New builtins like set and sorted, new modules like subprocess, additions to the operator module (attrgetter, itemgetter), generator expressions, decorators, etc. I also need a non-vendor installation of Python anyway to build self-contained applications that will continue to work on future versions of Mac OS X, so installing an old version of Python would be pretty silly. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
