On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:28:29 +0000, Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> As a user, I still think this could turn into a real mess. I think there >> will be quite a few that will see python being updated, run python-updater >> and switch it to the new python. At that point, it is going to hit the fan. >> I know because this is what I always do. News item or not, when python >> gets updated, I run python-updater and make sure it is selected. > > My assumption here is that eselect-python will not let you select v3 > as your python version without some prodding (eg setting stupid > environment variables or similar.) Alec, don't assume ;) * Messages for package dev-lang/python-3.1.2: * * WARNING! * Many Python modules haven't been ported yet to Python 3.*. * Python 3 hasn't been activated and Python wrapper is still configured to use Python 2. * You can manually activate Python 3.1 using `eselect python set python3.1`. * It is recommended to currently have Python wrapper configured to use Python 2. * Having Python wrapper configured to use Python 3 is unsupported. %% sudo eselect python set python3.1 %% python --version Python 3.1.2 -Jeremy
