On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:25 PM, John Bokma <j...@castleamber.com> wrote: > geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid.invalid> >> wrote: >>> On 2010-06-27, Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kap...@case.edu> wrote: >>> >>>>> It should be easier to have a large number of python versions on one >>>>> machine... ?I am realy fond of 2.5 so I am probily going to start >>>>> compiling them or just include the python2.5 exe if I port stuff and >>>>> settle it that way.. >>>> >>>> You're on the only platform where it isn't that easy. All us *nix >>>> users have to do is compile it with the altinstall flag, and then use >>>> #!/usr/bin/env python25 >>>> Windows uses the file extension instead of the shebang line to execute >>>> stuff, so it's harder for you to have multiple versions. >>> >>> If you install a real shell on Windows, then the hash-bang line works >>> fine. :) >> >> Might as well spare yourself the trouble and install linux or *bsd. It's >> probably easier. > > Ah, yeah, and then run all those Windows applications one requires on > Wine...
If you're bound to a platform, use it. My advice is just to get bound to a platform that does what you need it to do, and in my experience it's quite a bit easier to teach linux to do what you wanted windows to do than the other way around. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
