how to build with 2.4 having 2.6 as main python

[Dan Stromberg]

I don't think #!/usr/bin/env python is the right thing - unless a script
really doesn't care much what version of python it gets.

I used to #!/usr/bin/env everything, but I've been updating my old scripts
not to.  It's just too much trouble, despite the one minor simplification it
provides.

My Ubuntu 10.04 system has a mix of the two, but there are more
#!/usr/bin/python's.  That concerns me a bit, because I've needed to install
a half dozen versions of python in the past, and soon will do so on this
machine.  Of course, I rarely change my $PATH to include one of these
alternative python's (which is probably the salient issue), but I don't want
to be stuck being unable to do so if the need does arise.

I spent a year working in PowerShell, to my surprise.  What a pain it was
not being able to install more than one version at the same time.  May
Python never have that problem!

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Benjamin Kaplan
<benjamin.kaplan at case.edu>wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Alexzive <zasaconsulting at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > thanks guys,
> >
> > the solution for me was
> >
> > python2.4 setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local
> >
> > cheers, AZ
> >
>
> Don't do that! Like Steven said, you'll kill your system that way.
> Lots of programs in Linux use Python and those programs expect
> /usr/bin/env python to map to python2.6. Other versions of Python
> should be referenced by the version: so python2.4 for Python 2.4,
> python3 or python3.1 if you decide to install Python 3.1.
>
> > On Jun 14, 11:00 am, Steven D'Aprano <st... at REMOVE-THIS-
> > cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:30:09 -0700, Alexzive wrote:
> >> > what to change in order to get "python" calling python 2.4.3 instead
> of
> >> > 2.6.4 (at least during python setup.py build)?
> >>
> >> That will do bad things to your system, which will be expecting the
> >> system Python to be 2.6 and instead will be 2.4. You will probably find
> >> system tools will start to fail.
> >>
> >> > I suppose I need something like changing the link to /usr/local/bin/
> >> > python..
> >> > but I fear to do something bad by myself.. please help!
> >>
> >> Yes, that will do it, but if you do, you will probably break things.
> Best
> >> to just call the python2.4 binary directly.
> >>
> >> If you call
> >>
> >> python2.4
> >>
> >> from the command line, what happens?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Steven
> >
> > --
> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
> >
> --
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/attachments/20100615/ea290c68/attachment-0001.html>