--- Edward Diener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I do not know whether this is a Python problem or a Fedora 3 problem > but > I thought I would ask here first and see if anybody else had the same > > problem. I imagine the problem might exist on other Linux systems.
On my Mandrake 10.1 system I have the default python 2.3 installation plus a separate python 2.4 installation which I compiled from source. There are two executables (python2.3 and python2.4) in /usr/bin, plus a hard-link (from python2.4) named python. If necessary, I could switch back to the default setup by replacing the hard-link with one from python2.3 - so the system would then have its preferred python version and I could selectively run python2.4 whenever appropriate. So far, Mandrake has not complained about using python 2.4 exclusively, so I might try removing the old installation eventually. (Then again, it's always handy to keep it for compatibility testing). Note that if compiling and installing from source there is an option of 'make altinstall' which will leave the existing python executables (and man pages) as they are and just create a new python2.4 executable - by default the library is installed in '/usr/local/lib/python2.4'. See the README for details. John Ridley Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
