PPC OSX vs. x86 Linux

[Maurice LING]

Sells, Fred wrote:
> I'm no expert on internals, but I seem to recall that in the past, the
> string module could be implemented in either C or Python and I think there
> is a strop module that is related to all this.  Could it be that on the Mac,
> your string processing is using interpreted Python byte code while linux
> uses c?
> 

I have a suspicion towards Apple-installed Python, although this 
suspicion may be groundless. I've heard that OSX actually uses the 
installed Python for some of its work. Once I've deleted the 
Apple-installed Python totally and it does screw up some of my 
applications, like I can't click on a doc file and let it fire up 
OpenOffice to open the doc file. At the same time, I'm not sure of the 
Apple-installed Python is the same as if you had installed it from Fink, 
or has it been tweaked...

If Apple-installed Python is a problem for you, you might want to 
install a version of Python using Fink and see how it compares up...

Maurice