[GRASS-dev] PYTHONPATH question

[Michael Barton]

On Jul 29, 2008, at 11:03 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> 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.

You never know...

Anyway, it looks like the shebang should be #!/usr/bin/env python  
unless that is a problem on a non-Mac system. What about Windows?

Michael

>
>
> 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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