Re: older pythons

2009-07-09 Thread Adrian Dziubek
The recommended Debian way is update-alternatives. I find it a bit unintuitive, so I have to read through the documentation every time I use it, but it should be able link a chosen version of python to /usr/ bin/python. I don't know if it's set up by default, I have only one version installed. --

Re: older pythons

2009-07-09 Thread superpollo
Adrian Dziubek wrote: The recommended Debian way is update-alternatives. I find it a bit unintuitive, so I have to read through the documentation every time I use it, but it should be able link a chosen version of python to /usr/ bin/python. I don't know if it's set up by default, I have only

Re: older pythons

2009-07-09 Thread Lie Ryan
superpollo wrote: Adrian Dziubek wrote: The recommended Debian way is update-alternatives. I find it a bit unintuitive, so I have to read through the documentation every time I use it, but it should be able link a chosen version of python to /usr/ bin/python. I don't know if it's set up by

Re: older pythons

2009-07-09 Thread superpollo
Lie Ryan wrote: AFAIK, no major linux distributions have officially ported to python 3.x. http://packages.debian.org/experimental/python3.1 thanks for help -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: older pythons

2009-07-09 Thread Lie Ryan
superpollo wrote: Lie Ryan wrote: AFAIK, no major linux distributions have officially ported to python 3.x. http://packages.debian.org/experimental/python3.1 thanks for help Note the word experimental -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: older pythons

2009-07-09 Thread superpollo
Lie Ryan wrote: superpollo wrote: Lie Ryan wrote: AFAIK, no major linux distributions have officially ported to python 3.x. http://packages.debian.org/experimental/python3.1 thanks for help Note the word experimental i noticed. isn't experimental official? i thought it was...

Re: older pythons

2009-07-09 Thread Marco Mariani
superpollo wrote: what i was asking for is about a way to *INSTALL* and mantain different python versions, a task i think is not unusal for developers. Check out virtualenv, I ask myself how I could work without it. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv --

Re: older pythons

2009-07-09 Thread superpollo
Marco Mariani wrote: superpollo wrote: what i was asking for is about a way to *INSTALL* and mantain different python versions, a task i think is not unusal for developers. Check out virtualenv, I ask myself how I could work without it. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv much

Re: older pythons

2009-07-09 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Lie Ryanlie.1...@gmail.com wrote: superpollo wrote: Lie Ryan wrote: AFAIK, no major linux distributions have officially ported to python 3.x. http://packages.debian.org/experimental/python3.1 thanks for help Note the word experimental Assuming that

Re: older pythons

2009-07-09 Thread Lie Ryan
superpollo wrote: Lie Ryan wrote: superpollo wrote: Lie Ryan wrote: AFAIK, no major linux distributions have officially ported to python 3.x. http://packages.debian.org/experimental/python3.1 Note the word experimental i noticed. isn't experimental official? i thought it was...