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[tl;dr? see bottom] Python on OS X has always been somewhat of an abomination in that it's split up and spread out all across the system. Some in /usr , some in /Library/Python , some /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework . Now, as I understand it, the framework is supposed to contain the Python distribution , i.e. the bits and pieces that aren't going to change. An example would be headers, the standard library, the binary images, etc. So as a developer of a sort-of-popular Python C extension , I think myself to be pretty good at the OS X ecosystem and how to compile Python extensions on it. It wasn't a month ago that Apple decided to skip on QA , breaking C extension building across the board. It's broken in yet a new way though, as Apple seem to have decided to remove the better part of the Python distribution. Take a look at the include/ directory: $ ls -l /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/include/python2.6 total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 30K Jun 25 2010 pyconfig.h Missing something? The Python.h header perhaps? What's more, I had woes with zc.buildout because it couldn't find site.py ... Have a look-see: $ python -c 'print __import__("site").__file__' /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site.pyc $ ls -l /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site.py* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 20K May 17 15:40 /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site.pyc Missing something? The site.py original perhaps? All in all, it seems Apple are stripping out vital develop

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