[Pythonmac-SIG] updating command line python

[Bob Ippolito]

On Sunday, Feb 16, 2003, at 12:00 America/New_York, Edd Thompson wrote:

> I just updated to jaguar so I think I need to update python.
> But do I download the one from python.org or use fink or something 
> else altogether?
>
> The Last I played with python there were four different versions for 
> mac and that was almost a year ago.
> In the mean time I started playing with perl, because I wanted to make 
> use of algorithms in the "algorithms for perl" book  and to work with 
> regular expressions.
> All I can say is perl blow chunks, I'll get by trying to convert C 
> algorithms to python instead and maybe some day I will understand 
> regex but I won't ever under perl the learning curve is too steep 
> right now.

Your problem is already FInk.  Apple gives you a (well, mostly) working 
python 2.2 interpreter with 10.2.  Delete or perhaps reinstall fink, 
and it will work.

-bob