A modest PEP0238 suggestion

[Paul Prescod]

Stephen Horne wrote:
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>...
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> How would you feel if you found out that installing your new wiz-bang
> application suddenly meant your bread-and-butter application broke.

I have versions of Zope and Komodo on my hard disk that only run on
particular (and different!) versions of Python. I can safely add a new
Python version to my system without worrying about them because Zope and
Komodo *ship with the version of Python they need embedded*. I think
that this is the only sane thing for commercial applications to do. Most
Python upgrades break really big software packages. Commercial Python
vendors have *always* had to defend themselves against upgrades.
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