[GRASS-dev] PYTHONPATH question

[William Kyngesburye]

On Jul 29, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Michael Barton wrote:

> Looking more closely, one is in...
>
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin/python
>
> and the other is in...
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin/python
>
> Is one of these a System Python, or has MacPython shifted where it  
> installs?
>
> Michael


I thought that would be obvious: /System/Library/... is the system  
python.  The MacPython packagers would have been out of their minds to  
install in there.

Technically, they're both "MacPython", or just plain "Python" since  
the MacPython packaging became the official distribution.  But it's  
still helpful to say "system python" and "MacPython" (or as I say,  
"python.org python") to distinguish between the two.

Apple builds the standard [Mac]Python, just in the system location  
(and a few tweaks, like site-packages in /Library/Python).

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