Robert Layne wrote:
Well everybody, sorry for the incomplete sentences
and overall poor English but I wanted to make this
simple to read and understand for someone who
is completely inexperienced in any sort of programming,
Generally speaking, incomplete sentences and overall poor English make
things HARDER to read and understand rather than easier.
Or to put it another way:
Generally speaking, incomplete overall poor make things HARDER read
understand than easier.
<wink>
as I am (very first day messing with this stuff, e.g.,
terminal). This is the result of hours of Googling that
was all done in one day. Perhaps someone who is
familiar with the commands below (in bold) wouldn’t
Many of your readers -- including me -- prefer plain text email rather
than HTML (what Outlook wrongly calls "rich text"), for various reasons
including security. So you should not assume that colours and bold text
will be coloured or bold. If you want to emphasis text, writing it like
*this* is a good way.
This *especially* holds true for programmers, who tend to be very
suspicious of fancy colourful fonts and dancing paperclips and prefer
good old plain text that you could read over telnet using a 28K modem to
a computer in Siberia over a flaky link at 3 in the morning.
mind explaining what exactly is taking place. Additionally,
this was all done in terminal on a MacBook Pro
running Mac OS Lion.
Unfortunately, I haven't used a Mac since about 1999 or thereabouts, so
I can't answer any Mac specific questions.
However, I will say one thing: you seem to have made a really
complicated job out of something as simple as "be able to run Python
programs from the shell".
For starters, I'm pretty sure Mac OS X comes with Python automatically.
Perhaps not the most recent version, but I'm sure it will be there. Just
try running "python" from the shell, and it should Just Work.
If you want to install the most recent version, you shouldn't need to
install pygame, then uninstall pygame. It shouldn't take eight steps to
install the latest version of Python! (Even installing from source code
under Linux, it only takes five: download, extract, configure, make,
install.)
My suggestion is you try something like the Mac installer for ActivePython:
http://www.activestate.com/activepython/downloads
The instructions here are pretty old, but they should give you some hints:
http://diveintopython.org/installing_python/macosx.html
Or just use the Mac installer from here:
http://www.python.org/download/
--
Steven
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