On 01/04/2011 15:25, Tim wrote: > hi, > I can't seem to find the development version of python2.7.1; maybe > there isn't one any longer, but according to this post, there was a > bug in the configure script that affects freebsd machines; the patch > to fix it was made, but I think I'm not picking that fix up. > http://bugs.python.org/file19836/freebsd_ldshared.patch >> Where should I look for the updated version? This is the Mercurial repo: http://hg.python.org/cpython/ Look for the 2.7 named branch which tracks 2.7.x development TJG