[AstroPy] Using MacPorts for Python

[Thomas Robitaille]

I was wondering whether anyone has used the instructions below to
install Python on 10.7 using MacPorts, and if so, whether everything
works fine?

Tom

On 25 July 2011 18:36, Thomas Robitaille <thomas.robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Earlier this year I was given commit privileges to the MacPorts
> (http://www.macports.org/) package index, and I've already added a few
> Astronomy Python packages. After moved between various install methods
> in the last couple of years (system Python, EPD, source install,
> python.org distribution, ...) I've now settled on using the Python
> distribution from MacPorts. One of my main reasons for doing this is
> that I needed some complex packages (Qt and GTK+) which are not
> included in EPD, and by far the easiest way to install them has been
> through MacPorts. However, I believe a MacPorts Python distribution
> can still be very useful even if you don't need these packages, so
> I've compiled a list of simple instructions to set up a full Python
> distribution using MacPorts on Mac:
>
> http://astrofrog.github.com/macports-python/
>
> Updating packages is easy, and dependencies are automatically taken
> care of. For now I recommend using Python 2.7 as indicated in the
> instructions. I would welcome any feedback, especially if you run into
> issues, and would also welcome suggestions for other packages to add.
> For new packages you can either email me directly or open a ticket on
> MacPorts and cc robitaille at macports.org on the ticket. To report
> issues with the instructions, open an issue at:
>
> https://github.com/astrofrog/macports-python
>
> Note that it's possible/easy to install several Python versions with
> MacPorts at the same time and you can switch which one is the default
> with 'port select', or call the version you want directly with
> ipython-3.1 for example. This makes it ideal if you want to be able to
> test your code using different python versions or want to experiment
> with Python 3.
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas
>