I do not have a Mac, does it have something like a package manager? If yes, try to install Python from there. Otherwise go to http://www.python.org/download/ , download the First file (Python 2.5.2 compressed source tarball (for Unix or OS X compile)) and install it. Then follow the installation steps on the Django-Site: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/to ... al-release