Peter Hansen wrote: > On your specific reason for asking: I would suggest > just not worrying about "being extra clean about it". > Python's generally pretty good about not messing up > when you install a new version of something without > uninstalling the previous version.
Granted. However, the reason I did bring this up to begin with was the odd 'exceptional' case when doing the python setup.py install incantation over an older installation did cause problems. I think a little database (maybe in xml?) of installed files/modules and their locations would be useful, perhaps even for a future automatic download/installation/dependency-tracking thingmabob that still regretably still doesn't exist as parth of the stdlib in Pythonia. AK -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
