[Chicago] Python on macs

[Chris McAvoy]

As of late, I'm running Python in an Ubuntu VMWare image.  Mainly
because psycopg2 won't compile via easy_install or pip, and I don't
want to spend any time figuring it out.  I'm on Snow Leopard.

Chris

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Tim Head <betatim at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks everyone for their helpful advice.
>
> I followed (more or less) Jesse's ideas on setting up a virtualenv as
> the "default" python to use so that I can do what ever crazy thing I
> want and not break the default python (and packages). Also means it is
> easy to make a new virtualenv and try out lots of packages during a
> rainy day and then just delete the whole thing to get rid of it again.
>
> I will try homebrew as a package manager.
>
> I'll also compile py3.x by hand with --prefix ;)
>
> Tim
>
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