It took me a weekend but I finally got Python 2.7 + PIL (Python Imaging Library) working on my old PowerBook G4 12″ (which runs Mac OS 10.4 Tiger). The problems I was having were partly because of a mismatch between pre-compiled. and build-from-source packages. Read more
When I upgraded my iMac to Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion it upgraded Python to 2.7.2, which is nice, but also lost my site-specific changes—such as the installation of pip, virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper. These three basic tools allow me to create isolated Python installations and install packages in to them. So it was time to try to work out the neatest way to get things set up again. Read more