apython312 — Python 3.12.11 for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (PowerPC)

Relocatable CPython 3.12.11 for Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger on PowerPC (G4/AltiVec+).

Built natively on an iBook G4 1.2 GHz with GCC 14.2.0. Vendors its own
libssl/libcrypto/libsqlite3/libffi/liblzma/libreadline/libgdbm/libz
with @loader_path install names, so it runs from any directory.

Contents

• Python 3.12.11 · pip 26.2.1 · OpenSSL 3.5.7 · SQLite 3.50.4
• ssl / hashlib / ctypes (big-endian verified) / sqlite3 / lzma / bz2 / zlib / readline / decimal / zoneinfo / asyncio / multiprocessing …
• no _tkinter (no Tcl/Tk)

Install

Double-click install.command inside the .dmg (or tar xjf the .tar.bz2).
Then e.g. python3.12 -m pip install flask "django>=5.2,<5.3".

Requires

Mac OS X 10.4.x · PowerPC G4 (AltiVec) or better · ~200 MB free.

Won't install

Anything needing a Rust toolchain (cryptography>=3.4, pydantic-core, orjson, ruff, …).
Pin cryptography<3.4. Django core needs no cryptography.

Build procedure, the four source patches, and the full field report are in the repo.