[Pythonmac-SIG] bin and version

[Charles Hartman]

I can answer your second question: You're being confused by the Mac  
folder system vs the underlying Unix filesystem.

All folders are (really, underlyingly) directories, but not all  
directories show up on the desktop as folders.

Your home directory is, in Unix terms, someplace like
	/Users/yourUserName
whereas the bin directories, which do not show up on the OS X desktop  
as folders at all, are /bin and /usr/bin. The "/usr" here is not at  
all the same thing as the OS X "/Users" directory.

So in practice, you can't easily look for, or at, or into, the bin  
directories from within OS X. You have to go to the Terminal to do  
that. If you fire up the Terminal application and type
	cd /
and then
	ls
you'll see a list of files and directories at the top or root level  
of the Unix filesystem that underlies the Mac folder system. It will  
include "Applications" and "Users" and "Library" and other familiar  
stuff from folder-land, but also "usr" and "bin" other other  
unfamiliar, Unix-land stuff.

Which doesn't answer your question about what (Unix) commands to  
issue (in the Terminal) to find your Pythons. I'll leave that to  
somebody who understands Unix-land better than I do . . .


On Apr 8, 2006, at 7:59 PM, linda.s wrote:

> Hi,
> I installed quite a few python versions in my computer and I want to
> know where they are located.
> Should i check them in the bin folder?
> If so, why I can not find the bin folder in my home directory?
> Thanks!
> linda
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