Removing Python 2.4.4 on OSX

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On Mar 24, 12:09 pm, "Greg Donald" <gdon... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 Mar 2007 10:30:28 -0700, Robert Hicks <sigz... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I want to upgrade to 2.5 but I don't see any unistall instructions
> > anywhere.
>
> You're not required to remove the old version before installing the new version.
>
> Just install the new version somewhere like /usr/local and put
> /usr/local/bin ahead of your other paths.
>
> --
> Greg Donaldhttp://destiney.com/

Can you explain how that works?  If you install python in /usr/local,
doesn't that leave you with something like /usr/local/python?  So what
does putting usr/local/bin ahead of your other paths do?