Re: Upgrading Python from 2.4 to 2.6 - can I just copy site-packages folder?

Many thanks for your helpful posts - in the end I just changed a bit of my code to work with 2.4, but this will come in handy for when I finally make the upgrade. Thanks again, Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to

Re: Upgrading Python from 2.4 to 2.6 - can I just copy site-packages folder?

you could do a pip freeze in your old install, then do a pip install -r requirements in the new one. That would probably catch most things. Alex On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Bill Freeman wrote: > Additionally, the .pyc files are version specific. IF you had no specific >

Re: Upgrading Python from 2.4 to 2.6 - can I just copy site-packages folder?

Additionally, the .pyc files are version specific. IF you had no specific incompatibilities, you could consider deleting all .pyc files in the copy, then import every .py file running as root, to make new .pyc files. But then there are likely to be plenty of other issues anyway, as Alex points

Re: Upgrading Python from 2.4 to 2.6 - can I just copy site-packages folder?

You don't want to just copy site-packages. If you have any compiled modules (pyyaml, PIL, etc) they won't work, since they were compiled for the old version of python. Alex On Jun 8, 4:25 am, Nick wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently running Django on CentOS using the supplied Python

Re: Upgrading Python from 2.4 to 2.6 - can I just copy site-packages folder?

I haven't tried it. But, I wouldn't think so. It shouldn't be hard to install Django for 2.6. I've never used CentOS. But, most of the time, a version requirement means "at least". Of course, in the case of Python 3, that would not be true. On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Nick

Upgrading Python from 2.4 to 2.6 - can I just copy site-packages folder?

Hi, I'm currently running Django on CentOS using the supplied Python 2.4. I now need to use Python 2.6. I have installed Python 2.6 from the EPEL repositories, which sits alongside 2.4 (which is required for CentOS things such as "yum"). Django (and other Python modules) are all located in