On Jan 18, 2006, at 9:10 PM, David Warde-Farley wrote: > > On 18-Jan-06, at 2:55 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > >> It's fine, unless you want to create redistributable applications. >> If you build an app with a vendor Python, it will only reliably work >> on that version of the OS. Future versions of Mac OS X will >> absolutely throw away Python 2.3 for Python 2.4 (or 2.5, depending on >> when that happens) and none of your applications will still work. > > Exactly what Bob said. Other than that, Apple's Python build wasn't > linked against GNU readline and thus is not very nice to use on the > interpreter command prompt (try the arrow keys with /usr/bin/ > python; I find it's a real pain not being able to at least up-arrow > to repeat previous commands a la bash/DOSkey/etc.).
Dave forgot to CC the list... but if you want readline support for Apple Python 2.3 you can download the package from http:// pythonmac.org/packages/ and there are eggs up on Cheese Shop for use with easy_install. Note also that ActiveState's Python 2.4.2 also ships sans-readline due to license (same reason as Apple). I don't have a package for that, but there is an egg. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
