[Python-Dev] devguide: Point out that OS X users need to change examples to use python.exe instead of

Ned Deily nad at acm.org
Thu Jan 6 22:04:42 CET 2011


In article <E1Pawh0-0001Py-7i at dinsdale.python.org>,
 brett.cannon <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
[...]
> summary:
>   Point out that OS X users need to change examples to use python.exe instead 
>   of python.
>  Once Python is done building you will then have a working build of Python
>  that can be run in-place; ``./python`` on most machines, ``./python.exe``
> -on OS X.
> +on OS X (all examples throughout this documentation say ``./python`` but
> +implies you choose the proper name based on your OS).

That's true on OS X if you are using a case-insensitive file system.  
But wIth the newer, case-sensitive HFS+, for example, you get ./python.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org



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