Installing or adding python dev installed python.

[Robert Kern]

On 6/19/10 9:49 PM, Vincent Davis wrote:
> I have several versions of python installed and some I have built from
> source which seems to install the python-dev on osx. I know that on
> ubuntu python-dev is an optional install. The main python version I
> use is the enthought distribution. Can I install the python-dev tools
> with this? How. It there a good place for me to better understand what
> python-dev is and how to get it installed on osx?

Question specifically about the Enthought Python Distribution should be directed 
to the epd-users mailing list:

   https://mail.enthought.com/mailman/listinfo/epd-users

However, to answer your question, there is no equivalent of a python-dev package 
for EPD or any of the Python distributions on OS X that I am aware of. All of 
them come with the necessary headers. On Linux distributions, Python 
installations are typically divided up into several packages; the python-dev(el) 
packages typically contain the header files and maybe a few other things for 
people building Python packages and extensions.

I suspect that you are asking this question because you are trying to build 
numpy and getting our message that says something along the lines of "I cannot 
find Python.h; please install the python-dev package". There is something else 
wrong with your environment. Please ask for help on either numpy-discussion or 
epd-users. Tell us exactly what you are doing and exactly the output you are 
getting (i.e., copy and paste your terminal session). If you have any relevant 
environment variables set for some reason (CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, etc.) please let us 
know.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco