On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 05:21:39PM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > > With the default setup, stuff in /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages would be > ignored by 2.0.1. In order to make the transition easier, we might decide to > append /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages to the sys.path, though: > > Almost all pure Python modules that are currently installed in the python1.5 > directory will work with 2.0.1; Python 2.0.1 is almost completely backwards > compatible, and one might consider all remaining problems bugs in the potato > packages. > > Binary modules in /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages won't work. >
well, some time ago I symlinked some modules from python1.5 to python2.0 (binary ones) and surprisingly they worked (python just printed warning message about incompatible API) -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
