Updated for 2.0c1
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How to install Python 2.0b1+ on your Macintosh
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How to install Python 2.0c1 on your Macintosh
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If this is your first encounter with Python: you definitely need the
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Caveats
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This is a beta version, so use with caution. This b1+ beta has received
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only very little testing, use the older b1 if it proves problematic.
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If you have used an earlier version of 2.0b1 you _must_ remove your old
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preference file, the files are incompatible.
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This is a final candidate version, so use with caution, and please report
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problems as soon as possible, to pythonmac-sig@python.org.
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Aside from the general new Python 2.0 features (compared to 1.5.2, there
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was no 1.6 for the macintosh) like unicode support the main new features
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It is probably a good idea to run the automatic tests. Start
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Python and "import test.autotest". This should print only 2 or 3 errors, about some
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AM/PM format not supported in strftime, about a MemoryError in test_longexp and
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about a memory error in test_zlib.
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Python and "import test.autotest".
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Three tests will fail on the mac, all with MemoryErrors: test_sha, test_longexp
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and test_zlib. If you increase the PythonInterpreter memory partition size they
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will pass.
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It will, however, print some messages about optional features
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not supported. Also, if you didn't run compileall before autotesting
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you may run out of memory the first time you run the
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Two items are installed in the system folder: the interpreter shared
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library "PythonCore 2.0b1" lives in the Extensions folder and the
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"Python 2.0b1 Preferences" file in the Python subfolder in the
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library "PythonCore 2.0c1" lives in the Extensions folder and the
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"Python 2.0c1 Preferences" file in the Python subfolder in the
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Preferences folder. All the rest of Python lives in the folder you
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installed in.
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whether to upgrade. The bad news is that your old preference settings
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are lost and you have to set them again.
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After you are satisfied that 2.0b1 works as expected you can trash
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After you are satisfied that 2.0c1 works as expected you can trash
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anything in the system folder that has "python" in the name and not
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"2.0b1".
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"2.0c1".
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The installer
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@ -170,6 +169,8 @@ Stern, Gordon Worley, Oliver Steele, M. Papillon, Steven Majewski, David
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Goodger, Chris Barker, Luc Lefebvre and all the other people who
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provided feedback, code or both!
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MacPython includes waste, a TextEdit replacement which is (c) 1998 Marco Piovanelli.
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Feedback
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Mac/Relnotes
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Mac/Relnotes
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Changes in 2.0b1+ since 1.5.2
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Changes in 2.0c1 since 1.5.2
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These release notes refer to Mac-specific changes only. See NEWS (in the Misc folder)
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unix-style sys.argv arguments. (new since 2.0b1)
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- There's a new package, mkcwproject, that creates and builds CodeWarrior
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projects. (new since 2.0b1)
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- The "keep console open" options are now always, never, on error and on unseen output. The
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latter is the new default. (new since 2.0b1)
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- The "keep console open" options are now always, never, on error and on
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unseen output. The latter is the new default. There is also a call
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MacOS.KeepConsole() which allows programs to override the behaviour.
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(new since 2.0b1)
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- Missing Numeric modules are included. They may not be on sys.path, however. (new since 2.0b1)
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- gdbm works again. (new since 2.0b1)
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- The garbage collection mods to 2.0 have not been enabled, mainly due to lack of test-time.
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- Stackless Python/microthreads hasn't been ported to 2.0 yet. If/when it becomes available
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Just will undoubtedly announce it on pythonmac-sig.
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Just will undoubtedly announce it on pythonmac-sig and the MacPython homepage.
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- Carbon support is not in here, but should be happening as soon as GUSI is ready.
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- Distutils is not in here, but Corran Webster and myself are working on it.
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- Distutils is incomplete for the Mac, unfortunately. A newer version should be available
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soon and will be announced on pythonmac-sig and the MacPython homepage.
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Known problems
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