Should have been more specific. As I recall, after I installed 2.4rc1 I installed the latest versions of wxWindows and SPE IDE into it. The 2.4 copy of SPE died silently when started, which I can accept as a incompatible versions.
What was strange to me was that at that point, the 2.3.3 copy of SPE did the same thing. After I uninstalled 2.4, SPE ran again under 2.3.3, and that's what I'm using now. What caused this kind of interaction between installs? SPE and wxWindows both live in site-packages, which I would have thought would make them Python-version specific. Dave Merrill "Stefan Behnel" wrote: > > Dave Merrill schrieb: > > Newb question: Is it possible/recommended to have multiple versions of > > Python installed simultaneously? Earlier, I installed 2.4rc1, and a number > > of things in my 2.3.3 install stopped working. Are there known techniques > > for managing multiple versions? > > Short answer: depends on your OS. > > I assume "stopped working" means: libraries were missing. This means that > "managing multiple versions" already works for you. The libraries are > installed for Python 2.3 and only 2.3 uses them. That's the expected > behaviour. Install them for 2.4 as well and everything should work fine. > > Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
