What is the best way to upgrade python?

[ying lcs]

On 3/8/07, Sick Monkey <sickcodemonkey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you tried to upgrade the current python RPM?
>
> rpm -Uvh ....
>
> You can also build from source.  Once you get Python 2.4 up and running I am
> pretty sure you can do a symbolic link on the python 2.3 application (either
> in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin) and point it to the 2.4 python file.
>


I get '$rpm -Uvh python'
error: open of python failed: no such file or directory

but when I do '$rpm -q python ' , I get python -2.3.4-14.1



> On 8 Mar 2007 13:13:13 -0800, yinglcs at gmail.com <yinglcs at gmail.com > wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i am using red hat enterprise 4. It has python 2.3 installed. What is
> > the best way to upgrade to python 2.4?
> >
> > I think one way is to compile python 2.4 from the source, but I can't
> > remove the old one since when i do 'rpm -e python', i get error like
> > 'failed dependencies'.
> >
> > Thank you for any idea.
> >
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