Steven W. Orr wrote: > We have an app and I'm trying to decide where the app ... . > /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages > or > /usr/lib/site-python > > The latter would solve a lot of problems for me. Fewer than you suspect
> If there are multiple versions of python installed on the same machine, > having a shebang that just looked for /usr/bin/python would make my life > a lot easier. > * Since we distribute .pyo files, is there an issue if the .pyo was > built with 2.3.5 and then executed by 2.4 or 2.5? Each python M.N.X has its own byte code for distinct values of M and/or N. So, if you had a shared directory, not only would your users have to be able to write to the shared directory (when they import mumble, and mumble.pyc or mumble.pyo has been generated by a different version of Python, they will recompile mumble.py and rewrite mumble.pyc (or .pyo). -Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
