Worked for me. Thanks ! ~ Ashutosh
>________________________________ >From: Anand Balachandran Pillai <abpil...@gmail.com> >To: Ashutosh Narayan <ashuli...@yahoo.com>; Bangalore Python Users Group - >India <bangpypers@python.org> >Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 5:06 PM >Subject: Re: [BangPypers] Updating Python 2.3.4 to 2.6.1 on RHEL 4 > > > > > >On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Ashutosh Narayan <ashuli...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >Hi, >> >>I wrote a script that involves "subprocess" module ; and when I ran it >>on a production server I found that due to older version of Python 2.3.4 >>my script failed to execute. >> >>I have the following python version on one of the RedHat servers. >>Python 2.3.4 (#1, Feb 18 2008, 17:17:04) >>[GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)] on linux2 >> >>Now, the concern is of updating Python version to 2.6.1 w/o effecting >>other things eg: system-config-* on RedHat machine which are dependent >>on current Python version 2.3.4 >> >>So far I have downloaded the source tar ball, untarred it and NOT yet >>executed - >>./configure --prefix=/opt where I want it to land. Can I now run make, make >>install ? >> >>Any inputs on whether this is the right way to do withoutoverriding current >>default Python ? >> >> > >1. Install to a different prefix on the system (/usr/local/, /opt etc). >2. Use virtualenv > > >Thank you, >> >> >>~ Ashutosh Narayan >>_______________________________________________ >>BangPypers mailing list >>BangPypers@python.org >>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers >> > > >-- >--Anand > > > > > > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
