I think it helps you to use virtualenv when using django on a machine with multiple pythons (it's a great tool anyway, but this is an extra reason).
the trick is to use virtualenv's -p argument when creating the environment, to specify the path to the python executable. so, in summary: 1) install virtualenv[1] (in any python - whatever one works on the command line - maybe by installing the python-virtualenv package on your packaging system. Depending on your packaging system, you may need to then upgrade it (using pip, which virtualenv automatically installs: pip install --upgrade virtualenv) 2) create a virtualenv virtualenv -p /path/to/python2.7 /some/new/path/for/env 3) activate the virtualenv in your shell /some/new/path/for/env/bin/activate 4) install django using that environment (it will pick up the python in the shell - you can also I think use pip with a subversion repos[2], but I haven't done that). [1]http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv [2]http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/requirement-format.html On Jul 4, 9:26 am, bruno desthuilliers <bruno.desthuilli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 3, 5:46 pm, Phil <phil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks for all the comments everyone, it's a great help. > > > Yes I have more than one python installed, when I got the server it > > had python2.4 and I read the latest django stopped supporting 2.4 so I > > installed python2.7 after reading this(also it said not to delete > > python2.4 because 'yum' needs it to survive). > > Yeps, uninstalling your system's Python is usually a *very* bad idea > (unless you want a broken system, of course). > > > But I had already > > installed django when I just had 2.4. So I reinstalled django after > > installing python2.7, but it is still obviously pointing to wrong > > python version. > > Is it now just a matter of me changing the top line in my 'django- > > admin.py' file to point to correct python version, something like?... > > > #! /path/to/python2.7/env python2.7 > > > If yes, how do I find correct path to python2.7 > > how did you install python 2.7 ? > > Also and FWIW, this has nothing to do with django so this discussion > would be better on comp.lang.python > > HTH -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
