Python error on Mac

Graham Dumpleton Graham.Dumpleton at gmail.com
Sun Aug 26 07:19:54 EDT 2007


On Aug 26, 12:58 pm, Clover <antikr... at gmail.com> wrote:
> When trying to do some things on my Mac (starting Lyx, compiling Latex
> via TextMate) I get this error:
>
> python: execv:
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python:
> No such file or directory
>
> I (and people on Lyx and TextMate lists) are at a complete loss as to
> why this is happening. I didn't (at least intentionally) fiddle with
> Python setup.

The default operating system supplied version of Python on recent
versions of MacOS X is 2.3.5. Unless you have specifically installed
2.5, it will not exist. So, if those applications have it hardwired to
use Python 2.5 they will not work.

Graham




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