need to update interpreter, a lot seems to have changed since then <A HREF="http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&q=python+mac+osx&btnG=Google+Search" ADD_DATE="1194639595666"> python mac osx - Google Search</A> <A HREF="http://wiki.python.org/moin/MacPython" ADD_DATE="1194639595666"> MacPython - PythonInfo Wiki</A> <A HREF="http://www.python.org/download/mac/" ADD_DATE="1194639595666"> Python on the Macintosh</A> <A HREF="http://www.pythonmac.org/packages/py25-fat/index.html" ADD_DATE="1194639595666"> Mac OS X Python Packages for Universal Python 2.4 on Mac OS X 10.3.9 and later (Intel and PPC)</A>

installing iPython for better interactive shell.

python setup.py build sudo python setup.py install

found references to iPython and installed that

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