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| 60 | Your best way to get started with Python on Mac OS X is through the PythonIDE |
| 61 | integrated development environment, see section <A href="IDE.html#IDE">1.2</A> and use the Help |
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| 65 | If you want to run Python scripts from the Terminal window command line |
| 66 | or from the Finder you first need an editor to create your script. |
| 67 | Mac OS X comes with a number of standard <span class="Unix">Unix</span> command line editors, |
| 68 | <b class="program">vim</b> and <b class="program">emacs</b> among them. If you want a more Mac-like |
| 69 | editor <b class="program">BBEdit</b> or <b class="program">TextWrangler</b> from Bare Bones Software |
| 70 | (see <a class="url" href="http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml">http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml</a>) are |
| 71 | good choices. <b class="program">AppleWorks</b> or any other |
| 72 | word processor that can save files in ASCII is also a possibility, including |
| 73 | <b class="program">TextEdit</b> which is included with OS X. |
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| 76 | To run your script from the Terminal window you must make sure that |
| 77 | <span class="file">/usr/local/bin</span> is in your shell search path. |
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| 80 | To run your script from the Finder you have two options: |
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| 83 | <LI>Drag it to <b class="program">PythonLauncher</b> |
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| 85 | <LI>Select <b class="program">PythonLauncher</b> as the default application |
| 86 | to open your script (or any .py script) through the finder Info window |
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| 92 | PythonLauncher has various preferences to control how your script is launched. |
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