[Pythonmac-SIG] Using Python 2.5 on Snow Leopard

[Nicholas Riley]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 08:02:10PM +0100, Thijs Triemstra | Collab wrote:
> 
> On 11 Sep 2009, at 18:50, Bill Janssen wrote:
> 
> >I was happy to see that Python 2.5 still shipped with SL, but now I'm
> >less happy.  I can't seem to compile PIL for Python 2.5 on Snow  
> >Leopard.
> 
> Hm, haven't upgraded to snow leopard yet but i'd expect 2.6 to be in  
> there.. heard they also removed twisted :(

2.5 and 2.6 both ship with SL, just built differently - Python 2.5 is
obviously there for compatibility with Leopard, which I really
appreciate.

% lipo -info /usr/bin/python2.[56]
Architectures in the fat file: /usr/bin/python2.5 are: i386 ppc7400 
Architectures in the fat file: /usr/bin/python2.6 are: x86_64 i386 ppc7400 

and Twisted is there still too:

% find /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/twisted | wc -l
    1675
% find /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/twisted | wc -l
    1675

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Nicholas Riley <njriley at illinois.edu>