Thank so much to both of you for your input. You both know much more about this than I do so I shall follow your lead.<br>
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I discovered that there is some guidance in the python documentation regarding uninstalling...and it agrees with Williams advice so I will do it.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 6:25 PM, John C. Tull <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.tull@wildnevada.org">john.tull@wildnevada.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">William knows much more about all of this than I do. With that said, I am a significant portion of the testing on OS X, and I have never used <a href="http://python.org" target="_blank">python.org</a>. I would say dump it if you don't explicitly need it. Also, work out getting a build system for qgis that works, then start to tinker if you have to do so.<br>
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On Sep 17, 2010, at 4:16 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:<br>
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> There are 2 camps on this: system and <a href="http://python.org" target="_blank">python.org</a>, though I don't want to start a debate about that here ;) Both are valid, though I prefer the system version, and it's also the one most tested with Qgis as far as I know.<br>
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> If you want to uninstall <a href="http://python.org" target="_blank">python.org</a>, deleting /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework is a start. It probably also has added something to your PATH in your ~/.bash_profile. And there also may be symlinks and scripts in /usr/local/bin, and maybe some headers or symlinks in /usr/local/include.<br>
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> On Sep 17, 2010, at 4:49 PM, Matthew Denno wrote:<br>
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>> John, I guess the only reason was that I wanted to use Idle at one time. I don't care anymore though. In your opinion would it be better uninstall the <a href="http://python.org" target="_blank">python.org</a> version? Will that remove \Library\Frameworks\Python.frameworks...?<br>
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>> I am just trying to figure out how to proceed to get this cleaned up and working.<br>
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>>> On Sep 17, 2010 5:41 PM, "John C. Tull" <<a href="mailto:john.tull@wildnevada.org">john.tull@wildnevada.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>> Matthew,<br>
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>>> Is there a specific reason to use <a href="http://python.org" target="_blank">python.org</a>? Generally speaking, it seems to prove best on OS X to avoid overriding system provided bins and libs when possible.<br>
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>>> Cheers,<br>
>>> John<br>
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>>> On Sep 17, 2010, at 1:39 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:<br>
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>>>> I think it will default to 32bit.<br>
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>>>> O...<br>
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