Gael Varoquaux wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:30:14PM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
> 
> > Maybe the system should come with two pythons installed,
>
> What you propose resembles very much to what MacOSX does... I see on the
> different scientific-Python-related mailing lists how users have
> difficulties with MacOSX

It differs from MacOSX, because MacOSX only comes with one
Python installed. A lot of the problems go away if you install
another one, but things aren't set up that way by default.

> I think this discussion is really going on because Python does not have
> good library-versioning support.

That's probably true. I was wondering recently whether there
should be some way to specify which version of a module you
want when you import it, e.g.

   import fooble[3]

which means you want a fooble with API version 3 or something
compatible with it.

-- 
Greg
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