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

[Christopher Barker]

Idan Gazit wrote:
> If I want macpython / 2.6 to be the default python interpreter -- what 
> is the best route? I can think of the two following ways:
> 
> 1. Change $PATH so that /usr/local/bin precedes /usr/bin
> 
> 2. Symlink /usr/bin/python to /usr/local/bin/python or to 
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/python
> 
> What's the "best practice" here?

change $PATH - DO NOT mess with /usr/bin at all.

If the installer isn't doing it for you (I think it did for me), then do 
it by hand.

Note that I think my PATH may have been set to:

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/current/bin/python

and the installer changed the "current" link. I actually changed that 
link back to 2.5, as there are too many modules that don't yet work with 
2.6, so I consider it experimental.

I'm at home an Mac-less right now, so I may have a detail wrong....

-Chris

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