[Pythonmac-SIG] New binary installers for Python 2.7 packages (retry)

Russell E. Owen rowen at uw.edu
Wed Oct 20 01:50:51 CEST 2010


I have build several binary installers for the python.org 32-bit Python 
2.7 (compatible with 10.3.9 and later):

numpy 1.5.0 (see note 1)
matplotlib 1.0.0 (but wx support is iffy; see note 2)
PIL 1.1.7
pygame 1.9.1

They are available here:
<http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/rowen/python/>

Please test them and let me know if they work for you. So far I have 
tried them on 10.4 Intel (where I built them) and 10.5 Intel. 
I also ran code built from them on 10.3.9 PPC.

Notes:
1) the numpy 1.5.0 binary installer that is served by the numpy folks 
does NOT work with 32-bit python 2.7. That is why I made a new installer.

2) I doubt matplotlib works with wxAgg because I used the wxPython 
binary installer for 2.7, and I fear it may only be compatible with 
64-bit python. I only tested TkAgg.

While we are going through the uncomfortable transition between 32-bit 
and 64-bit python (e.g. while we still support Mac OS X 10.4) it would 
really help if folks who make binary installers were explicit about 
which version of Python they are for (32-bit or 64-bit).

-- Russell

P.S. sorry if this is a duplicate. I didn't see my first attempt.



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