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Re: Fixing Python install on the Mac after running 'CleanMyMac'

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Date Fri, 29 May 2015 11:44:29 -0500
Subject Re: Fixing Python install on the Mac after running 'CleanMyMac'
From Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
To Ned Deily <nad@acm.org>
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On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> wrote:

> Well, she could just download a current Python 2.7.x for OS X from
> python.org, install it, and see if that solves the problem.  That would
> be likely the easiest thing to do and is unlikely to make matters worse.
>

Might that appear to work at first, but leave some subtle issues which are
not at first apparent? I don't know how intertwined Apple's Python instance
is in the day-to-day operation of the operating system (it certainly seems
to be on some Linux distros), but it's possible that some Apple-specific
package isn't available at part of the stock Python 2.7 distribution.

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Re: Fixing Python install on the Mac after running 'CleanMyMac' Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2015-05-29 11:44 -0500

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