Can anyone help on conflicts between Python 2.5 and 2.7

[Terry Reedy]

On 10/9/2013 9:31 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> I'm not a Windows guru, so I might be off-mark here (I'm sure somebody
> will correct me) but as I understand it, the "default Python" under
> Windows is the one that was installed most recently.

It is an option in the installer.

> So, assuming you have Python2.5 installed in Python25 and Python 2.7 in
> Python27, I would expect that you also have the actual executables in:
>
> C:\Program Files\python25.exe
> C:\Program Files\python27.exe

The installers actually tried to put them in C:/python25/python.exe, 
etc, but lets you choose an install directory other than /.

Beyond that, I don't know what going on either.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy