[Twisted-Python] Twisted on Mac OS X 10.4

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Sun May 8 12:33:10 MDT 2005


On May 8, 2005, at 2:09 PM, David Reid wrote:

> Dave Cook wrote:
>
>> On 5/8/05, Max <macosxservertiger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> do you know how to install Twisted on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger?
>>
>> python setup.py install didn't work?  Well, I guess I'll find out  
>> as I
>> just installed 10.4 last night.  Was kind of disappointed that Apple
>> didn't upgrade to Python 2.4.
>
> If for some strange reason python setup.py install doesn't work you  
> can
> always just put the twisted directory in your path, either with a
> symlink, copying it, appending it to the PYTHONPATH variable, or  
> using a
> .pth file.

"sudo python setup.py install" should work fine.  symlinking or pth  
files would also work just fine (but neither would get you the twistd  
script, etc. without also modifying PATH).

DO NOT USE PYTHONPATH.  All of the alternatives suck less.

-bob





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