Rodney> I did a source code build of Python 2.4.1 on OS X (10.3.8) and Rodney> the executable produced was 'python.exe'. Can someone tell me Rodney> whether this is a bug, feature, or UserError?
The default file system on MacOSX is case insensitive. As a result the .exe extension is required to disambiguate the generated executable from the Python directory in the source distro. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list