Why can't I select the Mountain Lion Python 2.7?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Samuel Halliday <sam.halliday at gmail.com>wrote:

> Fundamentally, my problem is that I want to install a python library with
> "easy_install" and that is connected to the system Python. Furthermore, I
> frequently come up against scripts that start
>

The py??-distribute ports install easy_install and friends for their
respective Python ports.

PS: I'm increasingly becoming more opposed to mailing lists - they require
> so much setup. Is this community also active on
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/macports ? I find Stack
> Overflow to be a much more natural place for these sorts of Q&As, with
> mailing lists being reserved for discussions (Google Groups is easily the
> most superior choice).
>

There's occasional activity there but most of us actually prefer the
mailing list.

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