On 2020-12-22, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > I have (as discussed here) a printer utility that uses Python 2 and I > can't update it to Python 3 because it has a .so library file which is > compiled for Python 2. I think I have exhausted all the possibilities > for converting it to Python 3 so now I'm looking at how to keep it > working on my [x]ubuntu Linux systems as Python 2.7 becomes unsupported. > > How realistic/possible would it be to run the utility in a separate > environment with its own copies of Python2 and any modules and > libraries needed?
That depends on the modules and libraries needed. If it's just python2, it should be pretty easy. If it needs things like GTK or Qt, it gets a _lot_ harder. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list