Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > > > You may have already considered this, but since I didn't see it > > mentioned in your post, I'll reply anyway. > > > > I believe the Python binaries that Apple includes with OS X are always > > slightly behind the latest that you can get from the official sources. > > I'm not infront of my Mac right now, so I can't tell you the disparity. > > You are right. Apple is quite far behind. I upgraded to 2.4.2 from > 2.3.x. The MS box has the same version.
There's an excellent Universal version of 2.4.3 for MacOSX out on python.org and I suggest you get it. BTW, as I recently posted to rec.games.bridge and in more detail to it.comp.macintosh (in Italian), these days in my spare time I'm porting a library originally coded for Windows by Bo Haglund (whom I thank for giving me the sources, albeit under NDA), which does double-dummy analysis of bridge hands, to run as a Python extension under MacOSX and Linux (see http://www.aleax.it/Bridge ). Elapsed time per deal for hundreds of thousands of deals in a particularly difficult class (totally flat hands of middling strength playing at NT) is about: 1.26 seconds iBook G4 12" (1.33 GHz) 0.88 seconds Pentium 4 3.20 GHz (on Linux -- gcc 3.2) 0.80 seconds Powermac G5 dual 1.8 GHz 0.65 seconds Macbook Pro 2.0 GHz all w/Python 2.4.3, all save the Pentium w/gcc 4 and MacOSX 10.4, all times for using a single core/processor (I just run two processes when I want to max out BOTH cores/processors -- the analysis, which is a very sophisticated version of alpha-beta-pruning tree-search, easily takes 99 to 100% of CPU time with little memory, disk or other I/O use). Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
