Has Red Hat helped or hurt?

[Martin v. Loewis]

Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> writes:

> How have other people handled this?  Do you just copy all of
> 1.52/site-packages to 2.x/site-packages?  Do you install Python 2.x into a
> separate directory and grumble every time you have to change the #! line in
> your scripts?

I personally stopped using Redhat, but I recommend that you install
the Redhat-provided python2 binary. You could then install all
additional packages that you need - many of them should install easily
thanks to distutils.

HTH,
Martin