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[Boyd Waters]

On May 29, 2008, at 2:18 PM, Georg wrote:

> My hope is that Leopard ships with a 64-bit version of Python, so  
> that I can at least fill up the 10GB of RAM that I have.

Nope... because Tcl/Tk isn't 64-bit!

But I've got a MacPorts port that builds a quad-architecture Python. I  
wonder if that would work for you...


$ file /usr/bin/python
/usr/bin/python: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
/usr/bin/python (for architecture ppc7400):	Mach-O executable ppc
/usr/bin/python (for architecture i386):	Mach-O executable i386

$ file $(which python)
/opt/casa/core2-apple-darwin9/3rd-party/bin/python: Mach-O universal  
binary with 4 architectures
/opt/casa/core2-apple-darwin9/3rd-party/bin/python (for architecture  
i386):	Mach-O executable i386
/opt/casa/core2-apple-darwin9/3rd-party/bin/python (for architecture  
x86_64):	Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
/opt/casa/core2-apple-darwin9/3rd-party/bin/python (for architecture  
ppc7400):	Mach-O executable ppc
/opt/casa/core2-apple-darwin9/3rd-party/bin/python (for architecture  
ppc64):	Mach-O 64-bit executable ppc64