Coexistence of Python 2.x and 3.x on same OS

[Andrew Berg]

On 2012.09.30 22:06, Edward Diener wrote:
> The problem with that is that one has to already being using 3.3 to use 
> this facility. I was hoping for a solution which was backwards 
> compatible with Python 2.x.
It's a separate tool that comes with 3.3. You can install 3.3 and never
use the actual 3.3 interpreter if you wish.

> That does not solve the problem for Python 2.x distributions.
Compatibility across versions of Python is irrelevant; the launcher
doesn't execute any Python code itself.
Straight from the PEP:
> The launcher is not tied to a specific version of Python - eg., a
> launcher distributed with Python 3.3 should be capable of locating and
> executing any Python 2.x and Python 3.x version.

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