Re: Teething troubles with Python on a Mac

2008-08-04 Thread Greg Ewing
Avinash Vora wrote: (Greg: You only sent the email to me: you probably wanted to add the mailing list to the recipients.) I replied to the newsgroup as well, so it should turn up in the list. Right, but I meant if there is an Apple-sanctioned way. I guess not? Not that I'm aware of. I g

Re: Teething troubles with Python on a Mac

2008-08-04 Thread Avinash Vora
(Greg: You only sent the email to me: you probably wanted to add the mailing list to the recipients.) On Aug 4, 2008, at 8:37 AM, greg wrote: Avi wrote: On that: how would I go about updating the system Python, then? The usual advice is not to try to do that at all. Generally it's best to

Re: Teething troubles with Python on a Mac

2008-08-03 Thread Sean DiZazzo
> Question 1: How can I locate the Python installation? There a few > files under Applications > MacPython 2.5, but this is clearly not the > entire installation. find / -name "site-packages" Will lead you to where SciPy and Numpy should be installed for each Python installation. You can work ba

Re: Teething troubles with Python on a Mac

2008-08-03 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 03Aug2008 23:14, Avinash Vora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You will likely cause more problems updating the system python than >> managing the two separate installations. > > That's sadly worrying. It shouldn't be. It is often useful to have multiple versions of stuff installed. Replacing the

Re: Teething troubles with Python on a Mac

2008-08-03 Thread greg
Avi wrote: On that: how would I go about updating the system Python, then? The usual advice is not to try to do that at all. Generally it's best to treat anything in /System as off-limits. (I used to do so, but it caused so many issues with installing new packages that I gave up on it) I'v

Re: Teething troubles with Python on a Mac

2008-08-03 Thread Timothy Grant
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Avinash Vora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You will likely cause more problems updating the system python than >> managing the two separate installations. > > That's sadly worrying. > >> OSX relies on the version of python they ship. > > I think that helps my point-

Re: Teething troubles with Python on a Mac

2008-08-03 Thread Avinash Vora
You will likely cause more problems updating the system python than managing the two separate installations. That's sadly worrying. OSX relies on the version of python they ship. I think that helps my point--there *are* bug fixes between major versions despite the new language changes, and

Re: Teething troubles with Python on a Mac

2008-08-03 Thread Timothy Grant
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Avi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Apart from the initial installation of Python itself, I >> never use an installer to install a Python package if I >> can avoid it. I wouldn't trust it to install into the right >> Python version. > > On that: how would I go about u

Re: Teething troubles with Python on a Mac

2008-08-03 Thread Avi
> Apart from the initial installation of Python itself, I > never use an installer to install a Python package if I > can avoid it. I wouldn't trust it to install into the right > Python version. On that: how would I go about updating the system Python, then? Or is that going to be stuck at whate

Re: Teething troubles with Python on a Mac

2008-08-02 Thread greg
Thomas Philips wrote: Question 1: How can I locate the Python installation? There a few files under Applications > MacPython 2.5, but this is clearly not the entire installation. Have a look in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5 > But I do not seem to be able to see the seq