Remove old version before upgrade?

[Steve Holden]

Sal wrote:
> I'm currently running Windows version 2.5.1 and would like to upgrade
> to 2.5.2. My question is, can I just go ahead and install the new
> version over the old or should I remove the old version with add/
> remove programs first? The old version is in a directory named
> Python25.

You can do either. Since there's no change of major version the 
executable will have the same path, and the deinstall handily leaves all 
files that weren't part of the original install in place. So if it suits 
your sense of neatness, by all means deinstall before reinstallation.

Note that this *doesn't* work for (say) 2.4 to 2.5, since they can 
coexist. In that case normally the most recently installed version will 
be the default. I had a Windows system a while back with 2.1 through 2.5 
installed, and 2.4 as the default.

regards
  Steve
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