[Pythonmac-SIG] Macintosh Native Python Install

[Christopher Barker]

REH wrote:
> Using the Mac Leopard NATIVE installation of the Python 2.5 interpreter, 
> called out of the Terminal UNIX command line (i.e. NOT through the 
> X-code machinery), is it possible to pipe or pass in a text file 
> containing Python code?

the Apple one is a normal old python install -- just a particular 
version, so you can do all the same things with it.


>  Or is this literally a type-as-you-go-only  interpreter?


Of course not:

python NameOfScript.py

will run the script.

python -c "print 'something' "

will run python code directly.

or you can put a #! line at the top of your main python file:

#!/usr/bin/env python

and make it executable:

chmod a+x ThePythonFile.py

and you can just run it:

./ThePythonFile.py

> Alternative 2:  If Python.org distributions are the best way to go,

they aren't any different in that sense, but you do get Unversal support 
and newer version, and more packages have binaries built for them.


> recommendations on 2.5

very robust, stable and well supported by external packages

  vs. 2.6

Almost as godo, but I think there are still some external packages not 
supported (is there a binary PIL anywhere, for instance?)

 > vs. 3.x?

Still pretty new -- it's probably robust, but there are many fewer 
external packages supported.


-Chris



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