Apple Mac OS X 10.6 support & compatability with Python 3 ?

[Philip Semanchuk]

On Dec 16, 2009, at 12:41 PM, pdlemper at earthlink.net wrote:

> I've been given a MAC AIR laptop with OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard".
> On my desktop I dual boot with XP - Ubuntu and have Python on both.
> Unfortunately all my Python programs are written on Windows XP and
> I heavily rely on WConio for console I/O.
> Called Apple tech support. The technician had never heard of Python,
> ascertained the MAC AIR does not come preloaded with Python and
> did not know if Python 3 would run under OS X 10.6. This was "beyond"
> their expertise.

Sounds like the tech you spoke to was a knucklehead.

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/python.1.html

I've read about some Python-related headaches under Snow Leopard  
stemming from the fact that the stock Python is 64 bit and some 3rd  
party extensions assume/are compiled as 32 bit.

> Does anyone have experience with OS X ? Could I use WConio in a
> Windows emulator ?  I have no experience with MACs and am debating
> whether to send this back before opening.

WConio I don't know about. I'm not sure what you mean by a "Windows  
emulator". I run Windows XP under VirtualBox with OS X as the host,  
and that works fine for me. That's pretty heavy to call "emulation"  
though.

Hope this helps at least a little
Philip