On Sep 7, 2011, at 7:54 AM, Nate Coraor wrote:
This is normal since OS X has binary compatibility with older releases, the Python distributors build for an older platform rather than each individual platform.
I see there's now an Intel-only build for 10.6+, I'll work on this ASAP.
if it helps, here are details from 10.7 % /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python -V Python 2.7.1 % file /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7 /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7: Mach-O fat file with 2 architectures % /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python scripts/get_platforms.py macosx-10.7-intel-ucs2 % /usr/local/bin/python -V Python 2.7.2 % file /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/bin/python2.7: Mach-O 64-bit executable % /usr/local/bin/python scripts/get_platforms.py macosx-10.4-x86_64-ucs2 % brew --config HOMEBREW_VERSION: 0.8 HEAD: 8ba7bf8a53dd750943552458daf824e8c424db23 HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /usr/local HOMEBREW_CELLAR: /usr/local/Cellar HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY: /usr/local HOMEBREW_LIBRARY_PATH: /usr/local/Library/Homebrew Hardware: dual-core 64-bit penryn OS X: 10.7.1 Kernel Architecture: x86_64 Ruby: 1.8.7-249 /usr/bin/ruby => /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby Xcode: 4.1 GCC-4.0: N/A GCC-4.2: build 5666 LLVM: build 2335 MacPorts or Fink? false X11 installed? true % uname -rv 11.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 11.1.0: Tue Jul 26 16:07:11 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1699.22.81~1/RELEASE_X86_64 % uname -p i386 % uname -m x86_64