multiple Python versions, but on Windows (how to handle registry updates)

[Terry Reedy]

"Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote in message 
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En Fri, 09 May 2008 07:58:33 -0300, Banibrata Dutta 
<banibrata.dutta at gmail.com> escribió:

|> I already have Python25, and need to install Python24. I would prefer 
not to
|> remove Python25, but each Python version seems to update the registry, I
|> guess (not sure), overwriting each other's entries. Any way to have both
|> versions ?

|They can coexist peacefully. The last one you install will be the default 
|version to handle .py files automatically.

Since 2.5 at least, the Windows installer gives the option to make the new 
installation the default or not.  One might have to choose 'custom' versus 
'auto' (don't remember for Python), but I do the latter always anyway.

tjr