Christopher Barker wrote: > * What about people installing upgrades to packages? IIUC, the Apple > python puts stuff in a dir that is before site-packages, so if you > install a newer version of a package that Apple already had, it won't be > used without sys.path manipulations. I think numpy was the example at > hand, but assume the same issue would apply to wxPython etc.
If the upgrade package is an egg then the new egg will be found first. If the upgraded package just drops itself into the standard or user site-packages or something then the Apple installed packages will be found first unless there is some manipulation of the path. $ /usr/bin/python -c "import sys,pprint; pprint.pprint(sys.path)" ['', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python25.zip', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/plat-darwin', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/plat-mac', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/lib-tk', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload', '/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/PyObjC', '/Users/robind/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages'] -- Robin Dunn Software Craftsman http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython! _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
