On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:29 PM, <cclpia...@comcast.net> wrote: > Hi Kent, > Thanks for your very quick reply. I'll be as succinct as possible. > On Feb 5, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Kent Johnson wrote:
> Last login: Thu Feb 5 18:55:15 on console > Welcome to Darwin! > p-ws-computer:~ pw$ python > Python 2.3.5 (#1, Nov 26 2007, 09:16:55) > [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363) (+4864187)] on darwin > Using IDLE I get a different version listing: > Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Dec 6 2008, 16:42:21) > [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370)] on darwin OK, so IDLE is using the 2.6.1 you installed but the command line still sees 2.3. > Further I DL'ed the .tar which decompressed to a .dmg file. The 2.61 folder > is currently on my Desktop, where I process most of my downloads. > > Do you mean the installed Python in on your desktop, or the .dmg file, > or what? It should not install to the desktop. > > This is what happened. I have 2.61 on the desktop. Before I move it I wanted > to be sure of several other things: > 1. You already answered that Q, "don't remove the older version 2.35." > 2. Is there a hack to get my 2.61 off the desktop and into the System? I > still have the .tar file. I'm still confused by this. The download from Python.org is a dmg file, not a tar file. The standard installers don't install to the desktop, and they put the new Python into your path. Where did you get your installer? Maybe you should just install the version from Python.org. What is the console output of these commands? echo $PATH which python which python2.6 python2.6 Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
