Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-17 Thread Robert Kern
Maurice LING wrote: Robert Kern wrote: 3. Apple-installed Python's command line tools are symlinked from /usr/bin to /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework but the OSX installer for Python 2.4.1 places the commandline tools in /usr/local/bin and symlinked to /Library/Frameworks/Python.frame

Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-17 Thread Maurice LING
Robert Kern wrote: 3. Apple-installed Python's command line tools are symlinked from /usr/bin to /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework but the OSX installer for Python 2.4.1 places the commandline tools in /usr/local/bin and symlinked to /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework. So it seems t

Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-16 Thread Robert Kern
Maurice LING wrote: Hi Thomas, It seems that you've cleanly killed the Apple-installed Python, which isn't too bad a thing after all. What I can suggest you do is this... Copy the entire /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework directory from someone and drop it into your system (same place o

Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-16 Thread Maurice LING
Hi Thomas, It seems that you've cleanly killed the Apple-installed Python, which isn't too bad a thing after all. What I can suggest you do is this... Copy the entire /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework directory from someone and drop it into your system (same place of course). I will n

Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-16 Thread Kevin Walzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It's *not* a good idea to delete Apple's system Python. You will probably need to reinstall the OS. In addition to the mailing list that someone else posted (which is a great resource!), here's a good site to check out: http://pythonmac.org/ The site ma

Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-15 Thread Robert Kern
Thomas Nelson wrote: The main thing I would like is to be able to use tkinter with python on my mac. will the command-line-style source allow this? Does it come with IDLE? No. You need a framework version, which can be built from source, but it's best to leave that to people who know what the

Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-15 Thread Thomas Nelson
The main thing I would like is to be able to use tkinter with python on my mac. will the command-line-style source allow this? Does it come with IDLE? How is the fink version different from the source i can download at python.org? Here's the result of the requested commands on my Terminal.

Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-15 Thread Jorl Shefner
If you simply want the latest python to run from the command line, then compiling the source code works fine on the mac. I just installed 2.4.1 on Os 10.3.8 last week without any problems. http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.1/Python-2.4.1.tgz "./configure" "make" "make install" J.S. -- http

Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-15 Thread François Granger
Le 15/04/05 1:54, « Thomas Nelson » <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > I'm on a mac OS X (10.3.8), and I seem to have accidentally destroyed > the default python installation. How should I put it on? Do I need to > use the unix version? any help would be greatly appreciated. There is also a list

Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-14 Thread Maurice LING
I was actually trying to update to the newest python version, and I had read something saying it would conflict with the old version, so I went through and deleted all the folders that had "python" in the name =]. clever of me, huh? now I can't make either the new or the old work. Once again,

Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-14 Thread Thomas Nelson
Maurice LING wrote: I'm using OSX 10.3.8 as well. Just wondering, how did you "destroy" it? What I am thinking is, it may not be as destroyed as you think it might have... cheers maurice I was actually trying to update to the newest python version, and I had read something saying it would confl

Re: new to mac OS10

2005-04-14 Thread Maurice LING
Thomas Nelson wrote: I'm on a mac OS X (10.3.8), and I seem to have accidentally destroyed the default python installation. How should I put it on? Do I need to use the unix version? any help would be greatly appreciated. THN Hi Thomas, I'm using OSX 10.3.8 as well. Just wondering, how did yo