"Tony Cappellini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > So I've changed the association from the 2.3 icon to the 2.5 icon, > and > now I can run my script from the command line as follows > > python script.py, and the correct version of Python is invoked. > > This is very disturbing because it means the path or other env vars > have no control (or very little) as to which version of Python is > invoked.
There are multiple mechanisms. The PATH and env vars should take precedence inside a DOS box but from Explorer or from Start-Run its the registry settings that matter. > How do other people deal with having multiple versions of Python on > their system, and not run into this issue?? By using one under cygwin and the other under Windows. I currently have 2.5 installed in cygwin but 2.4 in Windows... (and 2.5 and 2.3 installed in MacOS - and 2.2 on Linux!) Alan G _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
