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Python MySQL and MAC OS X

Just van Rossum just at xs4all.nl
Sat Feb 9 17:40:58 EST 2002 
Gerhard H‰ring wrote:
> 
> Le 09/02/02 à 19:30, Peter HJ van der Kamp écrivit:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to install the Python MySQL module, without success.
> > According to the MAC OS X documentation of Python 2.0 I have
> > to drop the setup.py file onto the interpreter and pass the
> > build argument by setting a Unix style command line (which can
> > be set by holding the option key during interpreter startup).
> 
> Sounds frightening ;-) Don't you have a shell or terminal window on
> MacOS X?

Sure there is. I think maybe he's not yet aware that there are still two
very different version of Python available for OSX: MacPython, which
is still backwards compatible with MacOS 9 and earlier, and then there's
plain vanilla "unix Python". It sounds like he's trying with MacPython
where he really needs unix Python.

Just
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