Can I somehow check from inside a Python script if the executing Python engine
is major version v2 or v3?
I am thinking about a code similar to
if (os.python-majorversion<3)
print hello
else
print (hello)
Additional question:
Is there a way to execute a python script with v3 python engine
As I observed v3.6.1 installs (on Windows 7) in addition to the core python
engine a second program "Python Launcher".
As far as I read this component seems to be not necessary since it only aims to
facilitate the handling with *.py scripts on Windows.
When I always call Python script from
Sorry for this newbie question:
I installed Python v3.6.1 on win 7. Afterwards I tried to execute the following
simple python script from webpage
http://www.pythonforbeginners.com/code-s...me-script/:
Python Code:
from datetime import datetime
now = datetime.now()
mm = str(now.month)
dd =
Working on a Windows 7 64 bit machine, I installed 64 bit python v3.5. Was
able to pip install a number of basic packages like numpy, pyamml, and nltk
(off the Christoph Gohlke page).
Did not test numpy or the other packages too much, but did explore nltk and
encountered major flaw: Much of the
