On Dec 16, 2009, at 12:41 PM, pdlem...@earthlink.net wrote:
I've been given a MAC AIR laptop with OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard".
On my desktop I dual boot with XP - Ubuntu and have Python on both.
Unfortunately all my Python programs are written on Windows XP and
I heavily rely on WConio for console I/O.
Called Apple tech support. The technician had never heard of Python,
ascertained the MAC AIR does not come preloaded with Python and
did not know if Python 3 would run under OS X 10.6. This was "beyond"
their expertise.
Sounds like the tech you spoke to was a knucklehead.
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/python.1.html
I've read about some Python-related headaches under Snow Leopard
stemming from the fact that the stock Python is 64 bit and some 3rd
party extensions assume/are compiled as 32 bit.
Does anyone have experience with OS X ? Could I use WConio in a
Windows emulator ? I have no experience with MACs and am debating
whether to send this back before opening.
WConio I don't know about. I'm not sure what you mean by a "Windows
emulator". I run Windows XP under VirtualBox with OS X as the host,
and that works fine for me. That's pretty heavy to call "emulation"
though.
Hope this helps at least a little
Philip
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