Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Python 2.6/3.1 on Mac - default arch is i386?

2010-08-12 Thread Ned Deily
In article <84cb970d-35a3-45ea-9b5c-5a1da09dd...@activestate.com>, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: > When Python 2.6 is built with --universal-archs=intel, the default Python > binary is symlinked to the 32-bit binary: > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 12 10 Aug 15:31 python -> python2.6-32 > > P

[Pythonmac-SIG] Python 2.6/3.1 on Mac - default arch is i386?

2010-08-12 Thread Sridhar Ratnakumar
When Python 2.6 is built with --universal-archs=intel, the default Python binary is symlinked to the 32-bit binary: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 12 10 Aug 15:31 python -> python2.6-32 Python 2.7, however, is 64-bit by default. Is there a particular reason why this behaviour is different for