python on Mac

[Lou Pecora]

In article <e11ou7$git$1 at daisy.noc.ucla.edu>,
 James Stroud <jstroud at ucla.edu> wrote:

> Thomas Nelson wrote:
> > I just purchased a new macbook (os 10.4.6), and I'm trying to install
> > python 2.4 on it.  I downloaded and ran the two installers recommended
> > at http://www.python.org/download/mac/.  Now I have IDLE, which runs
> > 2.4.1, but typing "python" at a terminal still opens 2.3.5, because it
> > points to /usr/bin/python.  Is there a way to run python 2.4 without
> > idle?  If I want to do a unix style script, something like
> > #!/usr/bin/python
> > print "hello world"
> > what can I put on the first line that will cause python 2.4 to
> > interpret my code?
> > 
> > Thanks a lot.
> > THN
> > 
> 
> The python in /usr/bin is a link (to a link). You can do this:
> 
> sudo rm /usr/bin/python
> sudo ln -s \
>     /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/bin/python \
>     /usr/bin/python

YIKES!  Don't do that.  Don't mess with Apple's python.  Not 
recommended.  Check  the MacPython FAQ and Wiki pages.  Python 2.4 was 
installed in /usr/local/bin.  You should put that in your $PATH variable 
Before  /usr/bin.  That will cause the new Python to be launched.

-- Lou Pecora  (my views are my own) REMOVE THIS to email me.