On 09/30/2015 03:44 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > > The easiest way to install something from source is to use 'make > altinstall' for the final step. That should install you a 'python3.5' > binary without touching the 'python3' binary. That said, though, it's > entirely possible that upgrading 'python3' from 3.4 to 3.5 won't > actually break anything; it won't break any script that explicitly > looks for python3.4, and there's not a huge amount of breakage. But to > be on the safe side, use altinstall and explicitly ask for python3.5 > any time you want it. >
Thank you Chris. That will set me on my path. > Personally, I use the regular 'make install', but that's because I'm > on Debian - the system Python is 2.7. Unfortunately Ubuntu based distros are going through a 2.x to 3.x transition period. Both Pythons are installed and are system dependencies. And their finicky dependency on Python really make these distros not very friendly for Python development. If I do end up successfully upgrading from 3.4 to 3.5, I will most likely forfeit my ability to upgrade the Mint version in the future without a full system installation. So the solution is to just maintain 3 different versions of python my machine. Ridiculous. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
