Suppose I have a webapp running in a virtualenv (--no-site-packages) cloned off a Python 2.6.2 install, running under mod_wsgi. The virtual environment has various modules installed in it, some perhaps using C extensions.
Question: If the Python installation gets upgraded to 2.6.5 (or 2.6.7 at some future point), and assuming mod_wsgi also gets compiled/installed against the new version, will the virtual environments have to be rebuilt and the modules re-installed? Or, are Python installations w/in the 2.6.x series backwards compatible enough that, in the general case, the webapp will continue to work "as is"? This is under Linux, if it makes a difference.
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