[Pythonmac-SIG] Symlinks? Newbie / macpython alongside leopard python

[Kevin Walzer]

Idan Gazit wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2008, at 7:48 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote:
> 
>> The installer will modify your path settings so that MacPython comes 
>> up before the version shipped by Apple. However, the current Mac build 
>> of Python 2.5 is broken if you need to run Tkinter apps such as IDLE:
> 
> Hm,
> 
> Dunno why, but it certainly isn't the case, even after quitting out of / 
> relaunching terminal. I don't see anything in /etc/paths or /etc/paths.d 
> different, nor is there any change to ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist, nor 
> is there any change to ~/.profile -- so if something is happening, I'm 
> not seeing it. Perhaps a reboot? Will try and report success/failure.
> 
> Thanks for the help,
> 
> -Idan
> 
> 

What does "echo $PATH" show in Terminal? In my case it shows something 
like this:

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/bin:/

The installer script for 2.4  added these bits to my ~/.profile:

# Setting PATH for MacPython 2.4
# The orginal version is saved in .profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH

Not sure if 2.6 does the same, but I thought it did. It certainly 
doesn't touch /etc/paths.d, nor should it. ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist 
isn't affected either as far as I know.


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Kevin Walzer
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