RELEASED Python 2.3.2 (final)

Colin J. Williams cjw at sympatico.ca
Fri Oct 3 07:24:37 EDT 2003


Michael Geary wrote:
> Anthony Baxter wrote:
> 
>>On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm
>>happy to announce the release of Python 2.3.2 (final).
> 
> 
> Cool!
> 
> There's a question I don't see answered in the release notes: On Windows,
> what's the recommended procedure for upgrading from 2.3 or 2.3.1 to 2.3.2?
> Should I uninstall the old version first, or just install the new one right
> on top of it? What about other packages like win32all and ctypes? Uninstall
> them and reinstall after upgrading Python, or leave them alone?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Mike
> 
> 
I've found it satisfactory to install the new version on top of the old 
one.  The only problem is that, each time, I have to tell the installer 
that I've chosen to install to C:\Program Files\Python23 - the installer 
doesn't grab this information from the registry.

Colin W,





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