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Ronald Oussoren0e5b70d2006-06-07 18:58:42 +00001This package will install MacPython $FULL_VERSION for Mac OS X
2$MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET for the following
3architecture(s): $ARCHITECTURES.
4
5Separate installers are available for older versions
6of Mac OS X, see the homepage, below.
7
8Installation requires approximately $INSTALL_SIZE MB of disk
9space, ignore the message that it will take zero bytes.
10
11You must install onto your current boot disk, even
12though the installer does not enforce this, otherwise
13things will not work.
14
15MacPython consists of the Python programming language
16interpreter, plus a set of programs to allow easy
Ronald Oussoren9ff30422009-03-04 21:12:17 +000017access to it for Mac users including an integrated development
18environment, IDLE, plus a set of pre-built extension modules
19that open up specific Macintosh technologies to Python programs.
Ronald Oussoren0e5b70d2006-06-07 18:58:42 +000020
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +000021The installer puts the applications in "Python $VERSION"
Ronald Oussoren0e5b70d2006-06-07 18:58:42 +000022in your Applications folder, command-line tools in
23/usr/local/bin and the underlying machinery in
24$PYTHONFRAMEWORKINSTALLDIR.
25
26More information on MacPython can be found at
Ronald Oussoren9ff30422009-03-04 21:12:17 +000027http://www.python.org/download/mac/.
28
29More information on Python in general can be found at
Ronald Oussoren0e5b70d2006-06-07 18:58:42 +000030http://www.python.org.