On 2009-03-02 17:06, Rey Bango wrote:
Thank you Kevin (& all who replied). The next question (which I think
will be my last until I've read more info) is:
Once installed, how will I be able to distinguish between the OSX
Apple-supplied, preinstalled version and the newly installed version
that I downloaded from Python.org? Currently, when I go to Terminal
and type in Python, it gives me the Apple-supplied variant. Will I
need to adjust my environment settings to be able to work with the
newly installed version?
The installer should update your $PATH environment variable to put the newly
installed python executable before the system's if you use the bash shell. For
example, it added this to my ~/.bash_profile file:
# Setting PATH for MacPython 2.5
# The orginal version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH
If you use a different shell, you may need to edit the appropriate file to add
the above to the $PATH.
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