python on Mac

[Robert Kern]

Thomas Nelson wrote:
> Well, as I stated in post, I've already replaced the link at
> /usr/bin/python.  I'm not clear why that's unhealthy. 

The FAQ describes why it's unhealthy in detail.

"FAQ 5.7 Describe Apple's Framework implementation of Python and how that
affects me adding new Python implementations"

http://pythonmac.org/wiki/FAQ#head-392d16c2e6e49d6de6555634fc94759989464b5a

> Should I change
> it back to whatever it was before?  I guess maybe it was
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/python
> ?

[src]$ ls -l /usr/bin/python
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  9 May  1  2005 /usr/bin/python -> python2.3
[src]$ ls -l /usr/bin/python2.3
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  72 May  1  2005 /usr/bin/python2.3 ->
../../System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/bin/python

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