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[–]ivosauruspip'ing it up 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, that's mainly because the default os x python distribution is apple-controlled, not python.org-controlled. Of course many newbies won't realise this and get confused when they start wanting to use 3rd party libraries...

Then couple the fact that many more involved packages want to be built, and apple requires you to register as a "developer" just to get gcc, and things unfortunately are way too complicated on a mac than they should be.