About installing new Python version.

[king kikapu]

On Apr 19, 1:51 pm, Steve Holden <s... at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> Good question. kk is right - with a change in *major* version (such as
> 2.4 to 3.5, 3.5 to 3.6) the compiled extensions will be incompatible,
> and will need to be recompiled. This can take a while, as extension
> authors frequently have other things to do besides maintain their
> extensions.
>
> As you have found out, though, when only the *minor* version changes you
> can just frop the new version in over the old and all your installed
> extensions and packages continue to work just fine.
>
> regards
>   Steve
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Thanks Steve, it is just the way i understood this, after seeing what
the installer did.