This link at jessenoller.com is an excellent reference on setting up multiple Python installs on Mac OS Leopard and using virtualenv to create bespoke working environments for various Python packages:
jessenoller.com – So you want to use python on the mac?
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Cappuccino is a JavaScript toolkit for building application like experiences on the web. It’s developed (and used) by the folks who produced 280 Slides, a rather amazing presentation package for the web.
I’ve been doing a fair bit of of Mac development and have come to appreciate the syntax of Objective-C. One of the [...]
As a budding Mac developer, one of the things that I’ve had to sort out is which source code version control system I want to use. I first started using version control with RCS some 25 years ago. I’ve introduced version control or better version control at several of the jobs I’ve had. [...]
One of the reasons that I bought a MacBook was the prospect of running any OS that was likely to come up in my work could be run on the laptop. At the time, I assumed that I’d use Parallels for this purpose and in fact bought a copy of Parallels the same night [...]
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Related to my last post. This web page at developer.apple.com details the steps to take to work with PyObjC and XCode. It’s also a bit of an endorsement of Python development for the Mac.
Now that I have a MacBook, naturally enough my attention turns to developing for it. My language of choice these days is Python for a variety of reasons I won’t go into now. I’m interested to see that there’s fairly broad support for developing Cocoa based applications with python using PyObjC as a [...]