[Pythonmac-SIG] python version confusion; can someone provide some clarity, please?

[DavidW]

Hi Gary - welcome to the list.
This is a frequent question so a search of the archive might help, but  
here's my explanation:
http://www.avatar.com.au/sonipy/pythonInstall.html

HNY,
David

On 03/01/2009, at 11:20 AM, Gary Church wrote:

> Hello and happy new year!
>
> I'm new to python and to this list but am a happy several year  
> convert to OS X (now using leopard).
>
> I hope this isn't some kind of noob question that upsets the  
> subscribers to this list :-)
>
> I realize that leopard ships with its own python installation but  
> that it is somewhat outdated compared to what's currently available  
> (the latest being python 3.0). Not long ago, I installed, I believe,  
> MacPython (ver. 2.5). At least when I enter "which python" I get:
>
> Macintosh-4:~ gary$ which python
> /usr/bin/python
>
> and when I enter "python" from within my home directory, I get:
>
> Macintosh-4:~ gary$ python
> Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 17 2008, 19:35:17)
> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>>
>
> But suppose I want to install version 2.6 or the newly released 3.0;  
> where do they get installed (will they overwrite previous  
> installations) and if they occupy their own territory, how do I run  
> the various versions? I assume each separate version has its own  
> version of IDLE too...
>
> Is there some way of finding out which pythons I have currently  
> installed and their locations (paths?)
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Gary
>
> Gary Church
> gary.church1 at comcast.net
>
>
>
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