> It is useless to me. That's what I mean by parochial.
Bob, I completely understand and sympathize with what you are saying here. And for your purposes, these are completely legitimate complaints. But there are lots of "pure Unix" programs which it works quite well for. I do a lot of text processing, web-page re-writing, web spidering, etc. which works fine with the pre-installed Python. I do image0-processing with PIL and PDF generation with ReportLab which works fine. And to not support -- even celebrate -- those uses is, IMO, self-defeating. > The minimal effort it takes to use a third party installation of > Python is well worth it, and it becomes more useful as time goes on. > Doubly so now that Leopard is approaching, because users can upgrade > without losing all of their Python work to major version upgrade death. To begin with, I don't see a stability in the current state of MacPython that gives me confidence in this assurance. But I agree that the effort of installation is minimal, and should be encouraged. Should we officially encourage Apple not to include Python in their next release? That would solve lots of these problems, I think. Bill _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
