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How to install Python 2.1b2 on your Macintosh
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How to install Python 2.1 on your Macintosh
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This is a beta MacPython that can run on classic MacOS (from 8.1
This is a MacPython that can run on classic MacOS (from 8.1
onwards) and natively on MacOSX. The installer tries to work out whether you can
use the Carbon version or not. This is also the first MacPython distribution
to be packaged as an active installer, which only downloads the parts you actually
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You should definitely read the Relnotes file too.
A special note about the active installer: do not background it, it will hang
A special note about the active installer: do not background it, it may hang
your machine. This is a general problem with Vise active installers, MindVision
are working on it.
If you installed a 2.1 beta on MacOSX you MUST read the uninstall section below.
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If this is your first encounter with Python: you definitely need the
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Two items are installed in the system folder: the interpreter shared
libraries PythonCore and PythonCoreCarbon lives in the Extensions folder and the
"Python 2.1b1 Preferences" file in the Python subfolder in the
"Python 2.1 Preferences" file in the Python subfolder in the
Preferences folder. All the rest of Python lives in the folder you
installed in.
On OSX the libraries are installed in /Library/CFMSupport. There is a nasty bug
in OSX that is triggered by Python: if any orphaned aliases are left in
/Library/CFMSupport your machine will start to behave very badly. 2.1
beta installers triggered this problem if you simply threw away your Python folder,
so if you installed a 2.1beta you should clean out the aliases in /Library/CFMSupport
too. This final 2.1 installer always copies the shared libraries on OSX, so it does
not have the problem anymore.
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