[Pythonmac-SIG] Lost among multiple Python version on my mac

[David Worrall]

Hi Scott, I regularly use 3 different versions of python. here's how.
for command-line work:

/usr/bin/python  is the OS version
/usr/local/bin/python is my next choice

I have both of these in the shell's $PYTHONPATH variable

for (non-command-line) MacPythons, ie through IDLE etc,  notice that
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current is a  
symbolic link to a specific framework version of python
you can put other versions in the /System/Library/Frameworks/ 
Python.framework/Versions/ directory
and then change the symbolic link (ln -s) of Current to whatever  
version you want.
And/or add to (or make) the .MacOSX/environment.plist file in your  
home directory:
to contain this:

CTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
      <key>PYTHONPATH</key>
      <string>/usr/bin/python</string>
</dict>
</plist>

and that will be picked up by the IDE you load.
... Change/add to  at will.....

At least that's  how I do it. There's probably someone on this list  
who'll have a more sophisticated way, but quick&dirty gets the job  
done! :-)

hope this helps,

David

On 20/11/2006, at 2:09 AM, Piet van Oostrum wrote:

>>>>>> Scott Harris <scottrharris at gmail.com> (SH) wrote:
>
>> SH> I've unintentionally set my /usr/bin/python to a new version  
>> instead
>> SH> of the original version on OS X 10.4. Is it normally a link to  
>> the
>> SH> python in /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/?
>
>   /usr/bin:
>   wildcard python*
>   lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel      9 Oct 20  2005 python -> python2.3
>   lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     72 Oct 20  2005 python2.3 -> ../../ 
> System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/bin/python
>   lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     10 Oct 20  2005 pythonw -> pythonw2.3
>   -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  13728 Mar 21  2005 pythonw2.3
>
>> SH> Also, what's the "best" way to deal with multiple versions on  
>> Python
>> SH> on one mac? The binary downloads of 2.4 and 2.4 go in /Library/
>> SH> Frameworks, but the versions I build from source go into /usr/ 
>> local/.
>
> /Library/Frameworks is the way to go, and you can make symlinks from
> /usr/local/bin.
>
> To make from source:
>
>
> MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4 ./configure --enable-framework
> make
> sudo make frameworkinstall
>
>
> -- 
> Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl>
> URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4]
> Private email: piet at vanoostrum.org
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