Thomas Nelson wrote: > I just purchased a new macbook (os 10.4.6), and I'm trying to install > python 2.4 on it. I downloaded and ran the two installers recommended > at http://www.python.org/download/mac/. Now I have IDLE, which runs > 2.4.1, but typing "python" at a terminal still opens 2.3.5, because it > points to /usr/bin/python. Is there a way to run python 2.4 without > idle? If I want to do a unix style script, something like > #!/usr/bin/python > print "hello world" > what can I put on the first line that will cause python 2.4 to > interpret my code? > > Thanks a lot. > THN >
The python in /usr/bin is a link (to a link). You can do this: sudo rm /usr/bin/python sudo ln -s \ /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/bin/python \ /usr/bin/python This stupid firebird editor word-wraps (and I don't know how to turn this completely annoying behavior off. Appearantly this is because it is impossible to soft wrap text on the reader side, annoying NNTP veterans everywhere--we just can't count on this hard to program behavior in most mail readers because its so impossible to program for. Its been this way since reader-client word wrapping was predicted to exist at MIT in the 1970's.) so get a unix guru to help you with that last command if you really don't know what's going on. James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list