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Historically OS X shipped with ancient versions of Python that were not always complete. Same with Perl and others. It's only since the last two or three releas

by jvdh 17y ago

Historically OS X shipped with ancient versions of Python that were not always complete. Same with Perl and others. It's only since the last two or three releases of OS X that they included halfway decent versions of them. I agree that it may seems somewhat stupid now, but there was (and perhaps still is) a very good reason for installing them separately.

masklinn 17y ago
> It's only since the last two or three releases of OS X that they included halfway decent versions of them. And even then, sadly the pretty decent versions don't get updated (OSX 10.6 comes with Python 2.6.1… 2.6.2 was released in April…), so you're essentially SOL between two versions of OSX.