On Mar 7, 3:08 pm, "leland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i've upgraded my RHEL3 box to run python 2.3. problem is, mod_python > still points to the old python 2.2. is there any way to tell > mod_python that i've got a new version of python installed, and > to use that version now? > > any help would be great - thanks!
First off, your existing mod_python will only work against Python 2.2. You cannot simply coax it into trying to use Python 2.3. If you have completely replaced Python 2.2 with 2.3 such that 2.3 is now the default Python version, then all you need to do is recompile mod_python from source code, or install prebuilt mod_python package compiled against 2.3. If however you now have both Python 2.2 and 2.3 installed at the same time in different locations, it can get a bit more tricky. If this is the case and even if you reinstall mod_python which has been compiled against 2.3, you can have problems by fact that the way Python initialises itself involves searching for 'python' executable in PATH. If the version it finds is actually that for Python 2.2, even though mod_python is built against 2.3, it may attempt to try and use Python library from 2.2. If this is the case, you need to ensure that the PATH environment used by Apache when started finds 'python' for 2.3 first. Graham -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
