Upgrade 2.6 to 3.0

Tim Rowe digitig at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 19:18:03 EST 2009


2009/2/4 Scott David Daniels <Scott.Daniels at acm.org>:
> joviyach wrote:
>>
>> I am fairly new to Python, the first version I loaded was 2.6. I have
>> since downloaded 3.0 and I was wondering what the best practice for
>> upgrading is? I am using Windows XP Pro for my OS.
>
> On Windows, X.Y.* all go in one directory (over-riding each other)
> So the whole 2.6.* family should work just fine alongside the 3.0.*

Just don't try to have a 2.6 version of Idle and a 3.0 version of Idle
running at the same time! 2.6 WinPy and 3.0 Idle seem to coexist ok,
which is handy when I'm trying to get to grips with the differences
between versions..

-- 
Tim Rowe



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