installation problems on mac powerpc

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On Jul 14, 1:21 am, python27em... at yahoo.com wrote:
> interested in nltk installation on a mac osx 10.4.9
>
> however when try to install latest python
>
> get error cannot access subprocesses and won't even open idle
> got nltk to open through a terminal but entire process I fear is
> fragmented
>
> is there a better walk through of installation than what I've found on
> sourceforge?
>
> Any suggestions?

rebooting has resolved the above for now

how can I be sure numpy is installed correctly?
same with matplotlib?
what is python launcher and should I make it my default python scripts