[Python-checkins] devguide: Clarify when python.exe is used on OS X.

brett.cannon python-checkins at python.org
Sat Jan 8 23:05:05 CET 2011


brett.cannon pushed 6ce8d65a13e5 to devguide:

http://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/6ce8d65a13e5
changeset:   52:6ce8d65a13e5
user:        Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>
date:        Sat Jan 08 12:38:50 2011 -0800
summary:
  Clarify when python.exe is used on OS X.

files:
  setup.rst

diff --git a/setup.rst b/setup.rst
--- a/setup.rst
+++ b/setup.rst
@@ -113,9 +113,9 @@
 passed into the ``-j`` flag to match the number of cores you have.
 
 Once Python is done building you will then have a working build of Python
-that can be run in-place; ``./python`` on most machines, ``./python.exe``
-on OS X (all examples throughout this documentation say ``./python`` but
-implies you choose the proper name based on your OS).
+that can be run in-place; ``./python`` on most machines (and what is used in
+all examples), ``./python.exe`` on OS X (when on a case-insensitive filesystem,
+which is the default).
 
 
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