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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2013-04-14 08:17:35 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2013-04-14 08:17:35 (GMT)
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Update using/mac documentation which was still on 2.5.
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@@ -25,14 +25,14 @@ installers for the latest 2.3 release for Mac OS 9 and related documentation.
Getting and Installing MacPython
================================
-Mac OS X 10.5 comes with Python 2.5.1 pre-installed by Apple. If you wish, you
+Mac OS X 10.8 comes with Python 2.7 pre-installed by Apple. If you wish, you
are invited to install the most recent version of Python from the Python website
(http://www.python.org). A current "universal binary" build of Python, which
runs natively on the Mac's new Intel and legacy PPC CPU's, is available there.
What you get after installing is a number of things:
-* A :file:`MacPython 2.5` folder in your :file:`Applications` folder. In here
+* A :file:`MacPython 2.7` folder in your :file:`Applications` folder. In here
you find IDLE, the development environment that is a standard part of official
Python distributions; PythonLauncher, which handles double-clicking Python
scripts from the Finder; and the "Build Applet" tool, which allows you to
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ aware of: programs that talk to the Aqua window manager (in other words,
anything that has a GUI) need to be run in a special way. Use :program:`pythonw`
instead of :program:`python` to start such scripts.
-With Python 2.5, you can use either :program:`python` or :program:`pythonw`.
+With Python 2.7, you can use either :program:`python` or :program:`pythonw`.
Configuration
@@ -133,13 +133,11 @@ Installing Additional Python Packages
There are several methods to install additional Python packages:
-* http://pythonmac.org/packages/ contains selected compiled packages for Python
- 2.5, 2.4, and 2.3.
-
* Packages can be installed via the standard Python distutils mode (``python
setup.py install``).
-* Many packages can also be installed via the :program:`setuptools` extension.
+* Many packages can also be installed via the :program:`setuptools` extension
+ or :program:`pip` wrapper, see http://www.pip-installer.org/.
GUI Programming on the Mac
@@ -167,7 +165,7 @@ http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/intro.
Distributing Python Applications on the Mac
===========================================
-The "Build Applet" tool that is placed in the MacPython 2.5 folder is fine for
+The "Build Applet" tool that is placed in the MacPython 2.7 folder is fine for
packaging small Python scripts on your own machine to run as a standard Mac
application. This tool, however, is not robust enough to distribute Python
applications to other users.