Installing 3.1 questions

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Seems to work, but I'd like to know where Python installs its items.  I'm 
> wanting to test version 3.1 and downloaded the 'Bzipped source tar ball' 
> file (not sure of the difference between it and the 'Gzipped' one).  Do I 
> need to run some sort of 'install' command from the Terminal to get 
> 3.1 to work? 

You need to build it. Read the README file in the source distribution.
If you don't know what a "tar ball" is, read tar(1).

Regards,
Martin