SONIPY
an
extensive open-source Python framework
for data sonification research
and auditory display
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Python download and installation All the components of the Framework need to function well together. So, when installing a new version of Python, make sure you download the right version for SoniPy for your hardware and operating system. We recommend a specific version for the Framework, and it is not necessarily the very latest. This is because although another version may be OK, our experience is that just because it should work with everything else, doesn't mean it will. The devil is in the detail and our approach is to upgrade cautiously and with lots of testing. If you are using an earlier version than that recommended, we advise you to upgrade. Our experience is that backward compatibility is quite good in Python. That is, deprecated features tend to be carried forward for quite a few major version upgrades. Whilst it is
possible to
download and compile various versions of Python from source code, in
practice it is rarely useful. An installer version is recommended.
Download and installation instructions for most platforms can be found
on the Python site at For information on Python-oriented file-editing tools, go to the IDE menu, above. Macintosh OSX Installation Updates to this information can be found at the bottom of this page. If you're trying to simultaneously manage different versions of python on OSX, and you know the basics, you might want to read that now. The Simple Method: The simplest way to install another version of Python is to download a .dmg [1] of it fromhttp://www.python.org/download/mac/.
This will be a Universal binary version of Python that runs natively on
PPC and Intel systems. Installation is the same as the installation of
any other application.
For
the curious...where things go:
The Apple pre-installed Python is By default, Apple
applications are located in the Look carefully at
the difference: The contents of the % ls -l
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/
So /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/,
and switch the symbolic link (Current)
to 2.5. So the directory will look like this:
% ls -l
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/
Notice
that version 2.4 is still there - it is not overwritten. If you need to
go back to an older one, you can, simply by swapping what the % cd
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/
And then when you
want to go back to version 2.5: % sudo ln -s
2.5 Current
UPDATESMacintosh OSX: Installing Extension Modules Although Intel Macs are shipped with a python installed, it is not very well maintained by them. Most people we know who use python for more than a casually, use another version. We use versions built by the MacPython development group.If you are daunted by the package-building and installing to build SoniPy tools, there is a single build of many of the packages at Chris Fonnesbeck's at Macscience site. Chris uses Enthought's Python Distribution (free for academic and non-profit work). The package is called Scipy superpack available here. There is a series of blog posts there that give hints to what's going on when you download and install a 3rd party python module and it is "not found" when you try to "import xxx". You may find reading our explanation of what's going on at our ENVARS sub-menu. Footnote [1] ".DMG" is an acronym for "disk image" (Disk iMaGe) |
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