[Pythonmac-SIG] 'Cleaning house' - getting back to just Apple's Python

[Melton Low]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Monte Milanuk <memilanuk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/28/10 12:31 AM, Ned Deily wrote:
>
>>
>> The Apple-supplied Pythons in 10.6 are 2.6.1 and 2.5.4.  They are
>> invoked with /usr/bin/python2.6 (also /usr/bin/python) and
>> /usr/bin/python2.5.  The Python Frameworks are in /System/Library.
>> Don't try to remove any of this!
>>
>
> Roger that ;)  I see an older install of 2.3 floating around in there:
>
> macbook:~ monte$ ls -al
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x   6 root  wheel  204 May  6 15:31 .
> drwxr-xr-x   7 root  wheel  238 Jul  4 20:35 ..
> drwxr-xr-x   8 root  wheel  272 May  6 15:31 2.3
> drwxr-xr-x  12 root  wheel  408 Jul  4 20:35 2.5
> drwxr-xr-x  12 root  wheel  408 Jul  4 20:35 2.6
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    3 May  6 15:31 Current -> 2.6
> macbook:~ monte$
>
> I presume the older version is from what was there before with 10.3 or
> 10.4?
>
>
>> If you want to clean out both the python.org 2.6 and 3.1 (the only two
>> you've installed), the easiest thing to do is:
>>
>
> I purged everything as described, and cleaned a lot of cruft out of my
> .bash_profile and .profile files.  Looks like everything is more or less
> back to ground zero at this point.
>
>
> Thank a bunch!
>
> Monte
>
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There have been other posts about the Apple supplied Python.  Anything in
the /System should not be touched.

Cheers, Mel
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