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Using Python on a Mac OS 9 Macintosh </H1> <P> Using Python on a Macintosh, especially on Mac OS 9 (MacPython-OSX includes a complete <font style="font-variant: small-caps;">Unix</font> Python) can seem like something completely different than using it on a <font style="font-variant: small-caps;">Unix</font>-like or Windows system. Most of the Python documentation, both the ``official'' documentation and published books, describe only how Python is used on these systems, causing confusion for the new user of MacPython-OS9. 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