Im Gegensatz zu PCs ist bei OS X Python bereits vorinstalliert. Leider fehlt jedoch ausgerechnet IDLE, so dass trotzdem noch etwas zu tun bleibt.

Installationsanleitung für IDLE (von PythonMac FAQ abgekupfert)

• Tcl/Tk Aqua herunterladen und installieren
• MacPython herunterladen und installieren (für OS X 10.3 sind das die MacPython Panther Addons)
• Das Programm PackageManager im Ordner /Programme/MacPython-2.3 starten
• Im PackageManager _tkinter installieren

"Neue" Division

Damit IDLE sich so benimmt wie im Buch beschrieben (vgl. Anhang D im Buch), muss noch eine Datei leicht verändert werden.

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K got the book Python für Kids. To enable him to use the book on OS X, I wanted to setup the Python environment on the Mac as on the PC: Install IDLE and, to hide the differences between integer and floating point math, configure to use the new division.

Installing IDLE on OS X 10.3 is easy with MacPython. IDLE comes as bundle, ready to be launched with the mouse from the Finder. But for using the new division without the need for from __future__ import division, IDLE must be started with options. How to embed these options in the IDLE.app bundle?

A friend's PC had lost its ability to dual boot (Windows 2000 for work and Windows 98 for games). I had installed BootMagic to switch operating systems some years ago and it worked fine until it was broken this month during some harddisk cleanup.

I completed the cleanup of the Win98 partition with a new installation. After installing PartitionMagic and BootMagic again, Bootmagic would still not work, and the Windows 2000 installation (which I didn't touch) booted, but after a successful log on I was always logged out immediately.

Because Gimp 2.0 doesn't support the Windows icon format yet, I looked for another way to create a favicon.ico file with Gimp running under Mac OS X.

The Web recommends at least three different conversion tools for this task:

• ppmtowinicon is said to have problems with transparency
• xpm2wico is not available as a Fink package
• png2ico did the trick for me

I have evaluated a weblog software for a server without fancy options like CGI, Perl or PHP. I found BlogMax, Nanoblogger and Thingamablog and chose Nanoblogger for its Spring Theme and because it stores the entries in flat files.