On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Prasad, Ramit
<ramit.pra...@jpmorgan.com> wrote:
>
> I am not really familiar with BSD but *nix has the application
> update-alternatives. That will do what you want. Otherwise,
> you could change the name/location in the bin directory.
> It is likely that python is a symlink to python2.6 and all
> you need to do is change the symlink to point to python3.2.
> If no symlink is used you can rename the binaries instead.
Modifying the default to Python 3 sounds like a bad idea. Platforms
are still in transition to 3.x. Some scripts might assume
/usr/bin/python links to python2.x.
On Debian there's a python3 symlink. You can add your own if FreeBSD
doesn't have it. First, if ~/bin doesn't exist, run "mkdir ~/bin";
restart your session, and run "echo $PATH" to verify it's on the
search path. Then make the link with "ln -s /usr/bin/python3.2
~/bin/python3". You'll have to update this when 3.3 is released.
If ~/bin isn't on the PATH, edit ~/.profile and add the following:
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi
Also, while it's probably a bit much at first, I recommend using
virtualenv to configure environments with different versions of
Python/packages:
http://www.virtualenv.org
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