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30th June 2007 - Link Blog

Python, Mac OS X, and Readline. This worked for me, though you need to already have gcc and svn installed. It’s crap like this that made me switch to Ubuntu on Parallels for most of my Python development.

Posted 30th June 2007 at 10:24 pm

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