Reinstall python 2.3 on OSX 10.3.5?

[Robert Kern]

moa at extrapolation.com wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> I started a very long and roundabout process of attempting to install
> python 2.3.4 along side my apple-installed 2.3 system. To make a long
> story short, I have completely confabulated my environment ( i deleted
> the 2.3 binaries and so forth from the system in an attempt to start
> things fresh), and now I cannot figure out how to reinstall the base
> 2.3 Apple python distribution.
> Can somebody please point me in the right direction?

Borrow Guido's time machine and prevent your former self from doing 
that. OS X depends on it's python being there untouched. They also have 
compiled stuff that does not exist in the standard Python distribution.

Back up your data and reinstall the OS.

-- 
Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu

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