| This package will install MacPython 2.3.2 for Mac OS X |
| 10.2. Installation on the Panther preview may work, on |
| 10.1 or earlier will not work. |
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| Installation requires approximately 20 MB of disk |
| space, ignore the message that it will take zero bytes. |
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| You must install onto your current boot disk, even |
| though the installer does not enforce this, otherwise |
| things will not work. |
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| MacPython consists of the Python programming language |
| interpreter, plus a set of programs to allow easy |
| access to it for Mac users (an integrated development |
| environment, a Python extension package manager), plus |
| a set of pre-built extension modules that open up |
| specific Macintosh technologies to Python programs |
| (Carbon, AppleScript, Quicktime, more). |
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| The installer puts the applications in MacPython-2.3 in |
| your Applications folder, command-line tools in |
| /usr/local/bin and the underlying machinery in |
| /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework. |
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| The PythonIDE application has a Help command that gets |
| you started quickly with MacPython and contains |
| references to other documentation. |
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| More information on MacPython can be found at |
| http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html, more |
| information on Python in general at |
| http://www.python.org. |