--- Edward Diener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip]
I do not know whether this is a Python problem or a Fedora 3 problem
but I thought I would ask here first and see if anybody else had the same
problem. I imagine the problem might exist on other Linux systems.
On my Mandrake 10.1 system I have the default python 2.3 installation plus a separate python 2.4 installation which I compiled from source. There are two executables (python2.3 and python2.4) in /usr/bin, plus a hard-link (from python2.4) named python. If necessary, I could switch back to the default setup by replacing the hard-link with one from python2.3 - so the system would then have its preferred python version and I could selectively run python2.4 whenever appropriate. So far, Mandrake has not complained about using python 2.4 exclusively, so I might try removing the old installation eventually. (Then again, it's always handy to keep it for compatibility testing).
I need python to be python2.3 else many utilities no longer work. The problem is then using IDLE and pydoc for Python2.4 since neither are .py scripts and need python to be a link to python2.4 and not python2.3. I guess the solution is to write a script a shell script which links python to python2.4, run IDLE let's say, then link back to python2.3. However while I am doing this, other system facilities which depend on python to be python2.3 will be dead.
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