pythonselect 1.1

A tool to set current Python version (currently MacOSX only)

pythonselect

pythonselect is a MacOSX tool to set current Python version. If you have multiple Python versions installed - say, 2.6, 2.7 and 3.1 - then running the following will set Python 2.7 to be your current Python:

$ sudo pythonselect 2.7

pythonselect does this by creating appropriate symlinks in /usr/local/bin targetting the necessary binaries in your non-system framework Python install.

Credits

pythonselect is based on Komodo’s internal set-curr-python.py.

Roadmap

Even though this tool is MacOSX-only at the moment, we plan to expand support for Windows and Linux.

News

1.1

• Added arch-specific binaries on MacOSX (python-32, python-64, python-all)

• Added 2to3 symlink

1.0

• New: Accepts -h/-?/–help/help argument to print usage

1.0b3

• New: Show list of installed Python versions without any argument

• New: support for pypm, virtualenv, easy_install and pip

1.0b2

• Fix: Prevent setup.py from running on non-MacOSX platforms

1.0b1

• Initial import from Komodo source: mozilla/support/set-curr-python.py