[Spambayes] SpamBayes questions

[Neville Franks]

Monday, May 12, 2003, 12:46:18 PM, you wrote:

TP> [Neville Franks]
>> ...
>> From reading the Installation notes SpamBayes requires Python V2.2 or
>> later. I assume from this there is no way to get it to run on V1.5.2,
>> which is what is installed on our Web server and unfortunately can't
>> be upgraded?

TP> 2.2 is minimal, in part because the code uses generators (new in 2.2), and
TP> in part because it relies on many improvements to Python's libraries since
TP> 1.5.2 came out.  You could work around all that, of course, given an unknown
TP> (but large) investment of effort.  Note that 1.5.2 hasn't been supported for
TP> years, and even 2.1 stopped attracting support over a year ago (when 2.3
TP> development started).  That web server is going to self-destruct eventually
TP> <wink>.

Thanks. For now I've installed Python 2.3 locally and will run it that
way until I'm able to get the later version on my Web host.

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