installing lxml ?

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Diez B. Roggisch <deets at nospam.web.de> wrote:
> Chris Rebert schrieb:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:49 AM, 7stud <bbxx789_05ss at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm trying to install lxml, but I can't figure out the installation
>>> instructions.  Here:
>>>
>>> http://codespeak.net/lxml/installation.html
>>>
>>> it says:
>>>
>>> 1) Get the easy_install tool.
>>
>> <snip>
>>>
>>> My os is mac os x 10.4.11.
>>
>> I would recommend installing fink (http://www.finkproject.org/) and
>> then `sudo fink install setuptools-py26`.
>> As a bonus, you'll get a more up-to-date Python installed separate
>> from the system one (so you don't need to worry about hosing it).
>
> Which doesn't run any cocoa or other osx-specific code. Which some might
> call "hosed from the very beginning".
>

http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/pyobjc-py26

I personally use Macports (it's got more stuff and more up to date
from what I've found), but compiling all those packages can take a
while especially for something with as many dependencies as Python.

> Diez
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