In article <5005927a$0$6949$e4fe5...@news2.news.xs4all.nl>, Hans Mulder <han...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 17/07/12 15:47:05, Naser Nikandish wrote: > > I am trying to install Python 2.6 on Mac OS Lion. Here is what I did: > > > > 1- Download Mac Installer disk image (2.6) (sig) from > > http://www.python.org/getit/releases/2.6/ > > > > 2- Install it > > > > 3- Run Python Luncher, go to Python Luncher preferences, and change the > > interpreter to > > Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/pythonw > > > > Now that I want to open IDLE and open my old projects, it doesn't run! > > Is there anything that I am missing? > > You may be missing a leading slash. The path to pythonw is > /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/pythonw
Also keep in mind that Python 2.6 has been moved to security-fix-only mode which, among other things, means that new binary installers for OS X are not being made. The most recent OS X binary installer was 2.6.6. The system Python in OS X 10.7 Lion is 2.6.7. There has been one additional security fix release for 2.6 (2.6.8) since then. If you need Python 2, you really should consider moving to Python 2.7, which is already at 2.7.3 and is fully maintained. (The most recent Python 3 release is 3.2.3, also fully maintained.) -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
