It's not entirely silly. This has been the advice given to app developers on this list and the PyObjC list for years now. It's nice to have a better system Python for quick scripts, but it's still the System Python. It's Apples, for their stuff that uses Python. And it is specific to OS 10.5. If you use it to build your app, your app is pretty much guaranteed not to work when someone tries to run it on 10.6, etc.

At some level I agree - I haven't used the system python on Tiger for a long time now. But, that is not how Apple "sells" the python on their system.

Maybe they have changed how py2app works in 10.5, but the old behavior was to embed Python into your app, UNLESS it was the system python. Unless there is evidence to the contrary (I don't have Leopard yet), I assume that is still true.

The old advice still holds: For building apps, install your own framework build of Python, put it first in your path, and add any libraries you require to it. Then you have control over what goes into your app, not Apple.

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