Bryan Pieper's Blog : Snow Leopard

I just finished upgrading to Python 2.6.5 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The default python build is 2.6.1. I wanted to compile the latest version. This would normally be a non-event, but the pain involved made it worth noting. The DMG file did not install the 64-bit binaries, so I needed to manually compile it.

Download the latest source tarball from python.org and extract it.