diff --git a/installing-python.html b/installing-python.html index 71918c6..dc9ccb5 100755 --- a/installing-python.html +++ b/installing-python.html @@ -171,14 +171,14 @@ Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  • GUI Applications includes IDLE, the graphical Python Shell which you will use throughout this book. I strongly recommend keeping this option selected.
  • UNIX command-line tools includes the command-line python3 application. I strongly recommend keeping this option, too.
  • Python Documentation contains much of the information on docs.python.org. Recommended if you are on dialup or have limited Internet access. -
  • Shell profile updater FIXME WTF is this? -
  • Fix system Python FIXME WTF is this too? +
  • Shell profile updater controls whether to update your shell profile (used in Terminal.app) to ensure that this version of Python is on the search path of your shell. You probably don’t need to change this. +
  • Fix system Python should not be changed. (It tells your Mac to use Python 3 as the default Python for all scripts, including built-in system scripts from Apple. This would be very bad, since most of those scripts are written for Python 2, and they would fail to run properly under Python 3.)

    Click the Install button to continue.

  • [Python installer: dialog to enter administrative password] -

    Because it installs system-wide frameworks and binaries in /usr/local/bin/, the installer will ask you for an administrative password. There is no way to install Mac Python without administrator privileges. (FIXME really?) +

    Because it installs system-wide frameworks and binaries in /usr/local/bin/, the installer will ask you for an administrative password. There is no way to install Mac Python without administrator privileges.

    Click the OK button to begin the installation.