On Feb 4, 2008 2:34 PM, Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That was unfortunate. What they should have done, IMO, is install python as > a link to the latest version. Where they had tools that had not been > ported, those tools should have explicitly said #!/usr/bin/python1.5. > > Would be even nicer if python could say: > require python_version >= x.y > or some such.
I already had this suggestion shot down in the "Namespaces are etc." thread. The argument goes a bit like "if the os calls the wrong version of python to compile and run the code, it might not even compile, in which case the 'require version whatever' line of python code will never be executed". -- Cheers, Leif _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
