Fix Mountain Lion 10.8 Python IOError pyconfig.h Error

MountainLion-Python-Fix

After upgrading to Mountain Lion : 10.8 I noticed that I was getting Python errors which prevented me from starting vim:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 565, in <module>
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 547, in main
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 278, in addusersitepackages
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 253, in getusersitepackages
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 243, in getuserbase
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/sysconfig.py", line 523, in get_config_var
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/sysconfig.py", line 419, in get_config_vars
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/sysconfig.py", line 298, in _init_posix
IOError: invalid Python installation: unable to open /usr/include/python2.7/pyconfig.h (No such file or directory)

First I tried the first step from this: https://gist.github.com/3180261 - which didn't stop the errors from displaying...

I still need to find where the path is being incorrectly set and fix it there, but if you need to be up and running quickly with vim, this should also work:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/include/python2.7
sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/include/python2.7/pyconfig.h /usr/include/python2.7/pyconfig.h

i think it's better to link the whole include dir instead of the single file:

mkdir -p /usr/include
ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/include/python2.7 /usr/include/python2.7