Take the 2-minute tour ×  I recently upgraded my Mac OS X 10.5
Leopard install to 10.6 Snow Leopard, and with that came an
upgraded version of Python, 2.6.1 (instead if 2.5.1). Now when I
type python in the Terminal i still get  Python 2.5.1
(r251:54869, Apr 18 2007, 22:08:04)   I looked in /usr/bin/ and
found that to get Python 2.6 I have to type python2.6.  The
question is: How do I make the python command map to Python 2.6?
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accepted  It’s easy:  defaults write com.apple.versioner.python
Version 2.6  See man python for a complete explanation from
Apple.  Also, one gotcha: make sure you are running the Python
that came with your computer and not some other one that you
installed. Do this by typing which python at your command
prompt. It should point to /usr/bin/python. I only mention this
because my default is 2.6 under Snow Leopard (it was 2.5 when I
was using Leopard). So the fact that you are getting 2.5 may
indicate that there’s something el