"M.-A. Lemburg" <m...@egenix.com> writes: > > Naive users won't have PYTHONPATH or any other Python environment > variables setup. > > Really, if you know that you are going to run Python 3 instead of > Python 2 or vice-versa it's easy enough to run
You don't even know that you're going to run python. I have 40 python scripts in my /usr/bin directory. > > . py3env.sh > or > . py2env.sh > > in order to setup your shell environment, much like you typically > do when using virtual Python installations or work on different > projects that require different setups. No, thanks. I'd rather setup my shell environment in ~/.zshrc, once. > > If you just want to separate Python 2 and 3 files, use the > user site-packages dir which includes the Python version. Both the bzr and mercurial wiki recommend setting PYTHONPATH in order to install those programs in a user's home directory. There are still people running python <2.6. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
