[Pythonmac-SIG] Which Python for Panther?

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Tue Aug 17 23:09:16 CEST 2004


On Aug 17, 2004, at 4:49 PM, Craig Sutherland wrote:

>
> On Aug 15, 2004, at 2:35 PM, John Miller wrote:
>> Craig Sutherland <suthercd at mac.com> wrote:
>>>> If I do build 2.3.4, can I use the Panther add-ons as provided?  Are
>>>> they even necessary if I build from source?
>>> Tom,
>>>
>>> With the latest XCode release and Developer Tools, Python 2.3.4 (#1 
>>> Jun 2, 2004) is the framework install provided as default.
> >snip<
>> I'm probably misunderstanding here, but I've installed the latest 
>> XCode and Developer Tools, but in terminal I get the following:
>>
>> moire:~ jmillr$ python
>> Python 2.3 (#1, Sep 13 2003, 00:49:11)
>> [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1495)] on darwin
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>> >>>
>>
>> I don't think python 2.3.4 is installed, it's still 2.3.0.
>>
>> John Miller
> John-
>
> Which Xcode? Xcode IDE 389 1.5 is available from Apple's site.
>
> Info for my machine-
>
> Python 2.3.4 (#1, Jun  2 2004, 22:41:18)
> [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1640)] on darwin

Can you print out sys.executable and sys.prefix?  I don't believe you 
:)  I think that you got this Python from darwinports, Fink, or 
compiled yourself.

-bob


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