Re: [PyMOL] Mac OS X install, general PyMOL function - badly need overview

[Richard G. <re...@co...>]

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>> I have downloaded the version (0.79.dmg.gz) of the PyMol package 
>> suggested by Luca Jovine, but don't know how to get a working version 
>> of Python installed.  The only links I can find are to Python .exe 
>> files for versions 2.1 and 1.5.2, and I have no idea which of the 
>> other downloads (xx-contrib, ext) are needed.  For that matter, is the 
>> v. 0.79 really the latest for OS X, or is 0.82 or 0.83 options?  Which 
>> Python will run in the Mac Unix environment and how do I invoke it 
>> (presumably from the terminal) if it will?  You (W. Delano) make it 
>> clear that running PyMol within Python is not the way to go, then in 
>> the Mac, what is? I also see no links to documentation, nor do I find 
>> any obviously labeled documentation files in the download.

The Jaguar version of MacOS X (10.2) is supposed to have Python 
installed by default according to
the online technotes 
(http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2053.html).

   Richard Gillilan
   MacCHESS, Cornell