python.exe on Mac OS X!?

[Robert Kern]

Rodney Maxwell wrote:
>>>executable produced was 'python.exe'. Can someone tell me whether
> 
> this
> 
>>>is a bug, feature, or UserError?
> 
> 
>>I'm not sure. Why don't you grab the binary?
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>>http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.1/MacPython-OSX-2.4.1-1 .dmg
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> 
> Because I need to keep multiple versions of Python on this machine, and
> as far as I can tell the binary installer overwrites the default
> installed version.
> I could be wrong.

You are wrong. It installs alongside.

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