[Pythonmac-SIG] Status of Python 3.0 for Mac?

[Ken Mankoff]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Nicholas Cole wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Kevin Walzer <kw at codebykevin.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> I'm curious who maintains the Mac builds of Python these days. 
>> It's not hard to build from source, of course, and that's what I 
>> do...but the binary installer is convenient for many people.
>
> I want to install 3.0 to experiment with all the new features, but 
> I don't want to do anything horrible to my default Leopard 
> install, and I'd like to be able to remove 3.0 easily.  What's the 
> most sensible way of doing this?  Setting a --prefix of 
> /opt/python3.0 , for example, or just using the default prefix and 
> using make altinstall?
>
> What are others doing?

I've had success with multiple python installs setting a custom 
--prefix. I wrote what I did here:
http://spacebit.org/2008/10/26/python-and-wxpython

   -k.