Macintosh Development

[Alwyn]

In <eppstein-7165E1.08012115042002 at news.service.uci.edu> David Eppstein
<eppstein at ics.uci.edu> wrote:
>In article 
><20020415144153325+0100 at pc-62-30-160-65-hw.blueyonder.co.uk>,
> Alwyn <alwyn at alwyn.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> >MacPython does also have a facility for creating a standalone 
>> >application, but these are much bigger (several megabytes?) and I 
>> >haven't been able to get this to work.
>> 
>> But if the target platform is Mac OS X, you can run Python scripts from
>> the command line, as you would on any other Unix-type system. 
>
>If you've installed a *different* version of Python (Unix Python, not 
>MacPython), you can do this.  It doesn't come installed by default, and 
>I have no idea whether it can do GUI stuff (unless you also install 
>X-windows, or something).

I'm just building from the latest Python distribution as I write. As far
as I'm aware, it has Mac-specific functionality similar to that of MacPython. 


Alwyn