[Pythonmac-SIG] Installing numpy on mach-o python

[Marcel Prastawa]

I don't know about the other two tests, but I think that it is 
normal/expected that test_locale fails. IIRC, Mac OS X has weak locale 
support. You probably don't need to worry too much about the failures, 
unless you really need to use those modules.

 > Far worse I cannot run any scripts.  I can start the interpreter and
 > run commands from the command line but when I execute python myfile.py
 > it starts and terminates without executing any code.  So whats have I
 > done now?

Now this is odd... Do you not get any error messages or a stack trace? 
Did you check your code for bugs? One thing you could do is sprinkle 
some print statements in your code so you can tell what it is doing (or 
not doing). Also keep in mind that Python does not automatically 
echo/display the results of expressions when it executes a script file 
(it does so in an interactive session).

BTW, if you don't want to get hassled with building your own Python, you 
should look into Fink: http://fink.sourceforge.net
I do not use it for (Mach-O) Python, but I have happily used it for many 
other things.
There's also GNU-Darwin at http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net

Marcel