Getting IDLE 0.8 to recognize Pyhthon 2.2.1

[Gerhard Häring]

Brad Fonseca wrote in comp.lang.python:
> Gerhard Häring wrote:
>> * Brad Fonseca <linuxbrad at rogers.com> [2002-07-08 00:28 +0000]:
>>> I've upgraded to python 2.2.1 but when I start IDLE it still starts
>>> Python 2.1.1.  How do I get IDLE to start Python 2.2
>> 
>> Two possibilites.
>> [...]
>> 2) A little more hackish: Find your idle: "which idle". Then change the
>> first line from
>> 
>> #! /usr/bin/python
>> 
>> to
>> 
>> #! /usr/bin/env python2.2
> 
> To be more clear, I tried the second option and it doesn't work
> properly.  How do I get idle to install on Mandrake.  I used the
> tarball to install 2.2 in my /usr/local/src directory.

Well, you compiled Python yourself? Let's suppose your Python
executable ended up in /usr/local/bin. AFAIK IDLE is never installed
by the Python build process, but it exists in the Tools/idle in the
source distribution. Just invoke Tools/idle/idle with your Python 2.2
executable. Yes, Tools/idle/idle doesn't end in .py, but this doesn't
matter. If this works, you can then move Tools/idle outside of your
source tree if you like, and change its shebang line to your Python
2.2 installation.

Gerhard
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