Python shell on mac os x

Kevin Walzer kw at codebykevin.com
Sat Mar 17 13:09:52 EDT 2007


7stud wrote:
> On Mar 16, 2:53 am, martin.lal... at gmail.com wrote:
>> or go tohttp://pythonmac.org/packages/
>>  and you have python 2.5 or python 2.4.4 with readline support
> 
> The download instructions seem to steer Mac users to version 2.4.4
> because it has more modules available. What is the consensus on that?
> 

If you just want binary packages installed, it might make sense to use 
2.4.4, but building new packages with 2.5 is easy: either use 
easy_install or sudo python setup.py. I've had no trouble building the 
stuff I need with 2.5.

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