[Pythonmac-SIG] Compiling Python 2.6.1 on Leopard

[Ned Deily]

In article 
<d52d80370812201733s46cdff8ewde7e9a813facca17 at mail.gmail.com>,
 "R. Ellsworth Pollard" <rellsworthpollard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Where might I find instructions for compiling Python on Leopard? I just
> asked this on tutor and someone suggested that this list might be a better
> place to ask. I'm specifically looking for how to compile Python to replace
> the native installation of 2.5.1, what common libraries I should build it
> with, and how to support readline. The default ./configure seems to compile
> it to function as python2.6 instead of python, also.

FYI, an "official" OSX installer disk image for 2.6.1 has just been 
added at python.org:

<http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.1/>

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org