Re: python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-22 Thread Terry Reedy
Kushal Kumaran wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Vincent Davis wrote: I am running python on a mac and when I was getting going it was difficult to setup information. Specifically how modify bash_profile, how pythonpath works and how to set it up. how to switch between python versions. How

Re: python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-22 Thread Vincent Davis
tkp...@hotmail.com wrote: > I think a setup guide for the Mac would prove very useful. Earlier > this year, I tried installing Python 2.6 on my iMac, and ran into all > sorts of problems, largely as a result of the fact that I knew very > little about Unix. I finally downloaded and installed the

Re: python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-22 Thread Philip Semanchuk
Bad idea. It might break tools that need the /usr/bin/python to be the system's python. a simple export PATH=/Library/.../bin:$PATH inside .bashrc should be all you need. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/

Re: python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
aberry wrote: > > thanks for suggestion... > what should I put in 'bashrc ' so that I can switch between different > version. > as python command will always point to one Python framework (lets either > 2.4.x or 2.5.x). if you want to switch, put in there three different lines, and comment that

Re: python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-22 Thread aberry
; Bad idea. It might break tools that need the /usr/bin/python to be the > system's python. > > a simple > > export PATH=/Library/.../bin:$PATH > > inside .bashrc should be all you need. > > Diez > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >

Re: python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-22 Thread tkp...@hotmail.com
I think a setup guide for the Mac would prove very useful. Earlier this year, I tried installing Python 2.6 on my iMac, and ran into all sorts of problems, largely as a result of the fact that I knew very little about Unix. I finally downloaded and installed the Enthought Python distribution for th

Re: python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
aberry wrote: > > Switching between python version > Lets assume you have python 2.4.x and now you installed 2.5.x.By default > python path will point to 2.4.x. To switch to python 2.5.x, use following > commands... > > cd /usr/bin > sudo rm pythonw > sudo ln -s "/Library/Frameworks/Python.frame

Re: python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-22 Thread aberry
ow to look. > > Thanks > Vincent > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/python-needs-a-tutorial-for-install-and-setup-on-a-Mac-tp24135580p24146279.html Sent from the Python - python-list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-22 Thread OdarR
On 22 juin, 12:44, Kushal Kumaran > Have you seen the page athttp://www.python.org/download/mac/and the > pages linked from it? > As a (usefull) add-on : iPython (a must), I found this page a good help : http://www.brianberliner.com/2008/04/ipython-on-mac-os-x-105-leopard/ Olivier -- http://mail

Re: python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-22 Thread OdarR
On 22 juin, 12:44, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Vincent Davis > wrote: > > I am running python on a mac and when I was getting going it was difficult > > to setup information. Specifically how modify bash_profile, how pythonpath > > works and how to set it up. how to s

Re: python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-22 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Vincent Davis wrote: > I am running python on a mac and when I was getting going it was difficult > to setup information. Specifically how modify bash_profile, how pythonpath > works and how to set it up. how to switch between python versions. How/where > to install

python needs a tutorial for install and setup on a Mac

2009-06-21 Thread Vincent Davis
I am running python on a mac and when I was getting going it was difficult to setup information. Specifically how modify bash_profile, how pythonpath works and how to set it up. how to switch between python versions. How/where to install modules if you have multiple installed versions. I am thinkin