Python 2.6 OR 3.2

geremy condra debatem1 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 13 19:17:30 EDT 2011


On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:00 PM, harrismh777 <harrismh777 at charter.net> wrote:
> Andrew Berg wrote:
>>
>> AFAICT, there are three reasons to learn Python 2:
>
>   ... there is a fourth reason.
>
> The linux distro you are using currently was customized with python 2.x
>
> I ran into this problem this week in fact... on my HP g6 ubuntu notebook
> running 10.04 lucid. It ships with the 2.6.5 interpreter. I installed 2.7.1
> and 3.2 (from sources) and was working along happy as a clam until I needed
> to configure a printer... and the config tools would not function... some of
> them would not even open.  Want to guess?  Yup, the config tools are (some
> of them) written in python 2.6-- and they don't run in 2.7.1 nor 3.2  .   :(

Just a note, Ubuntu 11.04 has 2.7 preinstalled.

Geremy Condra



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