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Python on Leopard. readline is finally bundled, so the interactive interpreter works correctly without hunting around for frustratingly elusive add-ons. easy_install is bundled as well.

Posted 31st October 2007 at 5:53 pm

Tagged christopherlenz, leopard, osx, python, readline, setuptools

5 comments

Hah! In better shape than Java then. :-)

Dominic Mitchell - 31st October 2007 20:32 - #
c.lenz's blog doesn't appear to allow comments, so I'm asking on this one... he claims the bundled Python is 2.5.1, but I don't see how that can be:

Emily:~ alex$ python
Python 2.5 (r25:51918, Sep 19 2006, 08:49:13)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5341)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys; print sys.version
2.5 (r25:51918, Sep 19 2006, 08:49:13)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5341)]
>>>

Looks like 2.5, NOT 2.5.1...!

Alex

Alex Martelli - 1st November 2007 03:19 - #
Would be cool if someone could run listmodules on their leopard box, and post the result somewhere:

http://effbot.org/zone/listmodules-cgi.htm

Fredrik - 1st November 2007 10:10 - #

Alex - you're not using the Leopard bundled version of Python, probably you are using an old version (try 'which python').

% /usr/bin/python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct  5 2007, 21:08:09) 
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

That's the one you want.

Nicholas Riley - 1st November 2007 10:36 - #

Module list. Wow, a lot of stuff in there.
Nicholas Riley - 1st November 2007 10:42 - #