[Pythonmac-SIG] 2.3 vs 2.4

[Troy Rollins]

On Apr 15, 2006, at 5:57 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> Is there any particular reason to change it in  
> MacOSX.environment.plist?  What applications do you use that aren't  
> started from the shell, yet look in $PATH for Python?  I've never  
> seen one, but then again I don't use GUI text editors like BBEdit  
> or TextMate so I'm not sure what they do by default.

Komodo couldn't see it, it saw the unmodified path which did not  
include /usr/local/bin

>
>>> then applications with hard
>>> links to /usr/bin/python don't break.
>>
>> This is true, but they do cause some confusion. For instance, I don't
>> seem to be able to install wxPython... it finds the "wrong" python.
>
> Installers for extensions are specific to a particular version of  
> Python anyway.  Mac OS X installers don't try and detect Python,  
> they hard code where they expect to find it (win32 installers do  
> search though).  Your problem is that you found the wrong  
> installer, not that the installer found the wrong Python.

Ah. I suppose that could be it too. I believe the one I found was  
designed for Python 2.4.3 framework edition, which apparently does  
not include ActivePython, which is also designed to be framework, or  
so I thought.

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