install package in a particular python version

[Benjamin Kaplan]

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On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Benjamin
Kaplan<benjamin.kaplan at case.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Steve1234<sflennik at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> I installed the boto module in my Ubuntu system using "python setup.py
>> install" and it installs in my python2.6 version and works great.  Now
>> I want to install boto into my python2.5 version because my hosting
>> services supports 2.5 but not 2.6. and I want to test my code locally,
>> "sting".format() is not in 2.5.
>>
>> How do I install a package in a particular version of python?
>>
>> I tried several different install switches without any luck.
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> It's not an install switch- it's the version of python you use to
> install it. If you want to install it to Python 2.5, run python2.5
> setup.py install
>