[Pythonmac-SIG] Status of Python 3.0 for Mac?

[Kevin Walzer]

Nicholas Cole wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Kevin Walzer <kw at codebykevin.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm curious who maintains the Mac builds of Python these days. It's not hard
>> to build from source, of course, and that's what I do...but the binary
>> installer is convenient for many people.
> 
> I want to install 3.0 to experiment with all the new features, but I
> don't want to do anything horrible to my default Leopard install, and
> I'd like to be able to remove 3.0 easily.  What's the most sensible
> way of doing this?  Setting a --prefix of /opt/python3.0 , for
> example, or just using the default prefix and using make altinstall?
> 
> What are others doing?
> 
> N
> 
> 
I tend to use one Python at at time so I don't mess up my installation, 
so I can't offer much advice. You might want to try installing Python 
3.0 from MacPorts--that would be completely sandboxed away from your 
main installation.

-- 
Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin
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