1 This program will install MacPython 2.3b1 for Mac OS X.
3 MacPython consists of the Python programming language interpreter, plus
4 a set of programs to allow easy access to it for Mac users (an
5 integrated development environment, a Python extension package manager),
6 plus a set of pre-built extension modules that open up specific
7 Macintosh technologies to Python programs (Carbon, AppleScript,
10 The installer puts the applications in MacPython-2.3 in your
11 Applications folder, command-line tools in /usr/local/bin and the
12 underlying machinery in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework.
14 The PythonIDE application has a Help command that gets you started
15 quickly with MacPython and contains references to other documentation.
17 More information on MacPython can be found at
18 http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html, more information on Python in
19 general at http://www.python.org.