updating on ftplib from 2.1 to 2.3

[Lee Harr]

On 2004-07-01, John fabiani <jfabiani at yolo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a script that is not running on a freeBSD 4.4 with Python 2.1 
> that uses ftplib.  I'm wondering if it's possible to update only the 
> ftplib module from 2.1 to 2.3.  I only ask because I have no idea how to 
> upgrade anything for freeBSD 4.4.  I know there is are doc's available 
> but I sure don't want to screw anything up on the freeBSD 4.4 server 
> because I didn't understand what I was doing.
> Thanks
> John


You can have multiple versions of python installed ...

# pkg_info | grep python
py23-gui-1.4        A cross-platform pythonic GUI API
python-2.1.3_5      An interpreted object-oriented programming language
python-2.2.3_4      An interpreted object-oriented programming language
python-2.3.4        An interpreted object-oriented programming language
python-doc-html-2.3.4 Documentation for the Python programming language
zodb-py23-3.2.2     The Z - Object Database for python



Did you try just downloading the python-2.3.4 package from
ftp.freebsd.org and installing it? I think that is your quickest
and easiest path.

One thing to be careful of is the link from /usr/local/bin/python
to one particular python instance. The package may overwrite the
link to python2.1 when it installs python2.3. If you want to put
it back to python2.1 you can ...

rm /usr/local/bin/python
ln /usr/local/bin/python2.1 /usr/local/bin/python