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Author bugbee
Recipients bugbee, ned.deily
Date 2016-03-08.08:30:29
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Ned, thank you for your suggestions.  

Just so you know, my HD recently crashed so I rebuilt the system with a new SSD.  I was previously running 2.7.9 so I installed 2.7.9 to minimize any potential conflicts with my code base.  All was well.

Now it was time to rev Python to 2.7.11 and that was when the problem occurred.  ...so I tried 2.7.10 and then 2.7.9.  I hadn't gotten around to virtualenv so all these Python installs were on top of each other in /Library/Frameworks/...

Following your suggestion, with 2.7.9 installed, I ran your commands and the output was as expected.  I did notice, however, a lot of [benign?] cruft in my .profile and .bashrc and thought it best to clean them up.  Ok, still good.  I then installed 2.7.11 and reran your commands.  Again, everything worked as expected.  Huh?

I restored back to my earlier versions of .profile and .bashrc (cruft included), and am still unable to reproduce.  :-/  I've tested and retested.  All is still well, so sadly I'm unable to report the cause.  I suggest we close the report.


Changing the subject slightly...  I noticed that each time we do an install of Python, another path is prepended to PATH even if there is already an identical entry in .profile.  Did I mention cruft?  ;-)  Hard perhaps, but is there a way for the install script to mock execute .profile to devine the resulting PATH, inspecting it for the desired path rather than just blindly adding it to .profile?  ...just a thot.

Again, thanks for your help.  I'm off and running.
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