Newbie need help for upgrading python on snow leopard

[Elim Qiu]

Thanks a lot Mojca! It works great!

Guess I can do something similar to upgrade java and install geogebra 5 on
snow leopard?

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 16 February 2017 at 01:10, Elim Qiu wrote:
> > I don't even know if this list is about any system software upgrade...
> But I
> > did get problem about upgrade python 2.6 to python 2.7.
> >
> > It seems easy just download a dmg file, apply it to get pythong 2.7. But
> > after that I cannot get ipython to work. And I encountered a lot of
> > path/config problem.
> >
> > If I asked the right group, please advise me what to do so that pythong
> 2.7
> > and ipython can work properly.
>
> This list is about installing a package manager and upgrading packages
> from within the package manager. See:
>     https://www.macports.org/install.php
>
> Once you install MacPorts, you can install any version of python
> (ideally 2.7 as well as 3.5 or 3.6, ...) as well as "any other open
> source software". You just run
>     sudo port install python27
>
> without any headaches with dmg files and broken paths. You might want
> to remove the python you install via the above mentioned dmg.
>
> For ipython you should install
>     sudo port install py27-ipython
> and/or
>     sudo port install py36-ipython
>
> Mojca
>
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