Re: [Visualpython-users] avoid dueling pythons on tiger

[Martin C. <cos...@wa...>]

(cross-post removed as I can't and won't post on these other groups)

Jon Schull wrote:
> Please forgive the cross-post.   I think this is a cross group issue.
> 
> I've newly installed Tiger and would like to avoid the dueling pythons 
> problem that plagued me with 0SX 10.3.  It would be nice to be running 
> just one python, but I suppose that would be asking too much?

Since there is now a Tk framework and tkinter on Tiger, it would indeed 
be feasible to rely much more than before on the system-installed python.

But if you want a python that understands X11, I guess you still have to 
install your own (from Fink, in my case). The only problem with several 
python versions is to keep your site-packages in the right places and to 
define the environment variables correctly so that the python you want 
to use can find the site-packages that it needs to find.

> I installed Bob's MacPython 2.4.1 from http://undefined.org/python/ 
> Double clicking the apps works fine.  But when I type "python" from 
> terminal I get python Apple's python 2.3.5.  

This would be a PATH problem. You have to make sure that the directory 
that holds the python you want to use is found first in your PATH.

-- 
Martin