Installing Python2.6 on Mac Os (Leopard)

[Tommy Nordgren]

17 nov 2008 kl. 16.53 skrev Massi:

> Hi everyone, I'm trying to install Python2.6 on my mac (Leopard
> 10.5.5), but I'm encountering some problems. To install the package I
> followed the instructions I found at this link:
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/MacPython/Leopard
> If I open wing, it turns out that the installed version is actually
> 2.6, but if i run python from terminal it displays version 2.5.1, that
> is the default version for leopard. Furthermore I can't launch idle.
> I'm pretty new to mac os environment so forgive me if my questions are
> silly. Any hint?
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	Locally build software usually ends up in subdirectories of /usr/local.
The build in Python 2.5 has a symlink installed in /usr/bin.
To make your locally-build python first in the search paths,
add export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
to your bash login file
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