Comment 27 for bug 803791

I think OS X 10.6.x used at least 2.6, if not 2.7, as the default python installation. Not sure how 2.5 fits in here. My virtualized copy of 10.6.8 has 2.6.1 installed. If they are using 10.6, I'd like to know how or why they are using older versions of tools like python.

I just installed the modified measure.py and it's better but still not what I would call accurate. A circle 100mm in diameter should have a circumference of 314.159 etc., not 314.202648 mm. Likewise a rectangle 100 x 25 should be 250mm, not 248.871119 mm.

Other than sneering at an unfamiliar OS, is there some actual test of the internals of python that can be compared across different releases and operation systems?

This is what a 10.6.8 system gives me:
uname -a
Darwin virtual-experience.local 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
virtual-experience:~$ python
Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jun 24 2010, 21:47:49)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

As for the system where I am seeing this bug:

uname -a
Darwin 12.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.4.0: Wed May 1 17:57:12 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2050.24.15~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
(<email address hidden>)-(11:01 PM / Sun Jun 16)
[/Users/paul]# python
Python 2.7.2 (default, Oct 11 2012, 20:14:37)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple Clang 4.0 (tags/Apple/clang-418.0.60)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.