[Pythonmac-SIG] Python development on OSX

[Russell E. Owen]

In article <69949.1295543978 at parc.com>, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> 
wrote:

> Christopher Barker <Chris.Barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> 
> > > and certainly the majority of those who need any help.
> > 
> > I think that's key -- Bill's approach is fine one for some users, but
> > not what I"d recommend to newbies that aren't sure how to set a PATH.
> 
> Hmmm.  My experience is that those are exactly the folks who get into
> trouble by using the python.org installer on their macs -- those who
> don't understand how PATH influences their usage experience.

Is that experience recent? The python.org installer got smarter at some 
point and started putting itself on the path, eliminating the need for 
users to do anything to their startup configuration files.

It just works, and in my experience it works well.

-- Russell