Re: Using system python vs. updated/current version

2013-08-01 Thread Ben Last
> From: memilanuk > How much of a pain are virtualenvs when working from an IDE? > That depends on the IDE. I use PyCharm, and it has support for setting up multiple Python virtualenvs, and associated different projects with different virtualenvs, as well as tracking the packages installed per vi

Re: Using system python vs. updated/current version

2013-07-31 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:35 PM, memilanuk wrote: > Also... in some places in the 'Net I see references to installing > everything 'locally' via pip, etc. in virtualenvs and not touching the > system installed version of python... yet most linux distros seem to > have many/most such packages avail

Re: Using system python vs. updated/current version

2013-07-31 Thread alex23
On 1/08/2013 4:35 AM, memilanuk wrote: Also... in some places in the 'Net I see references to installing everything 'locally' via pip, etc. in virtualenvs and not touching the system installed version of python... yet most linux distros seem to have many/most such packages available in their pack

Re: Using system python vs. updated/current version

2013-07-31 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/31/2013 4:19 PM, memilanuk wrote: Are there any significant flaws with v.3.3.0 that would necessitate upgrading to the most recent version (3.3.2?) Go to the overview page http://docs.python.org/3/index.html and click on 'What's new in Python 3.3' to get to http://docs.python.org/3/whats

Re: Using system python vs. updated/current version

2013-07-31 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/31/2013 2:35 PM, memilanuk wrote: Hello there, What would be considered the correct/best way to run a current release of python locally vs. the installed system version? On openSUSE 12.3, the repos currently have 2.7.3 and 3.3.0 released April 2012. 2.7.5 100+?? bug fixes. and released

Re: Using system python vs. updated/current version

2013-07-31 Thread memilanuk
On 07/31/2013 12:17 PM, Prasad, Ramit wrote: > You should be able to install both Python 2 and 3 in most modern > Linux distributions (at the same time). I would not change the system > Python version. I hadn't really planned on mucking with the system python... I recall from a long while back (on

RE: Using system python vs. updated/current version

2013-07-31 Thread Prasad, Ramit
memilanuk wrote: > Hello there, > > What would be considered the correct/best way to run a current release > of python locally vs. the installed system version? On openSUSE 12.3, > the repos currently have 2.7.3 and 3.3.0. As far as I know, I'm not > really hitting any limitations with the exist