[Pythonmac-SIG] Python 2.4.1 not replacing earlier versions.
Bob Ippolito
bob at redivi.com
Sat Sep 3 00:52:34 CEST 2005
On Sep 2, 2005, at 2:52 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> Just to add my $0.02 for completeness:
>
> I think the standard installers put a "python2.4" as well as "python"
> in usr/local/bin. If they don't, they should, and until then, you can
> put in a link yourself:
Of course the standard installers make this link. What they are
missing (the framework ones anyway) is a link for pydoc, and all of
them are missing a versioned pydoc binary. This matters less now,
because python2.4 -mpydoc <name> works just fine, and python2.4
`which pydoc` <name> also works fine (for versions of python earlier
than 2.4, also).
> I really wish specifying the version would become standard practice in
> python development.
That cuts both ways, for a lot of scripts you don't give a damn which
python it is and changing the hash-bang every time you upgrade is a
pain.
If you use distutils to install your scripts, your job is done. It
translates #!/usr/bin/env python to #!/usr/local/bin/python2.4 or
whatever is the appropriate way to point to the exact same python
that was used for distutils.
-bob
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