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10gen provides pre-built egg packages for Apple provided Python versions on
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Snow Leopard (2.5, 2.6) and Lion (2.5, 2.6, 2.7). If you want to install
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PyMongo for other Python versions you may have to install the following to
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build the C extensions:
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PyMongo for other Python versions (or from source) you will have to install
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the following to build the C extensions:
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**Snow Leopard** - Xcode 3 with 'UNIX Development Support'.
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**Snow Leopard Xcode 4 Users**: The Python versions shipped with OSX 10.6.x
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**Snow Leopard Xcode 4**: The Python versions shipped with OSX 10.6.x
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are universal binaries. They support i386, PPC, and (in the case of python2.6)
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x86_64. Since Xcode 4 removed support for PPC the distutils version shipped
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with Apple's builds of Python will fail to build the C extensions if you have
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Xcode 4 installed. This issue may also affect builds of Python downloaded
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from python.org. There is a workaround::
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x86_64. Xcode 4 removed support for PPC, causing the distutils version shipped
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with Apple's builds of Python to fail to build the C extensions if you have
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Xcode 4 installed. There is a workaround::
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# For Apple-supplied Python2.6 (installed at /usr/bin/python2.6)
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# For Apple-supplied Python2.6 (installed at /usr/bin/python2.6) and
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# some builds from python.org
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$ env ARCHFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64' python -m easy_install pymongo
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# For 32-bit-only Python (/usr/bin/python2.5 and some builds
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# from python.org)
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# For 32-bit-only Python (/usr/bin/python2.5) and some builds
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# from python.org
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$ env ARCHFLAGS='-arch i386' python -m easy_install pymongo
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See `http://bugs.python.org/issue11623 <http://bugs.python.org/issue11623>`_

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