> It might be true, however I have seen some modules that say that are ment for > Python 2.5, for 2.6 or for 2.7, so there seem to be differences between these > versions also.
Python cares *a lot* about maintaining backward compatibiilty between all major versions. This is so true that I managed to use a unique code base for pyftpdlib which supports python from 2.3 to 2.7. Same for psutil which covers versions from 2.4 to 3.2 by using a unique code base! > It might be true, however I have seen some modules that say that are ment for > Python 2.5, for 2.6 or for 2.7, so there seem to be differences between these > versions also. Usually the differences between one version and another rely on *new features* only. One might decide to target a module only for a certain version of the 2.x serie because that certain version introduced a new functionnality which was not available before (silly example http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.initgroups ). All the other functionnalities are likely to remain the same and fully backward compatible. > py2exe offers the following installation kits, depending on the Python > version. If you know, please tell me why there are different packages for > different versions of Python? > > py2exe-0.6.9.win32-py2.5.exe > py2exe-0.6.9.win32-py2.4.exe > py2exe-0.6.9.win32-py2.3.exe > py2exe-0.6.9.win32-py2.6.exe > py2exe-0.6.9.win32-py2.7.exe That's a different story: those are pre-compiled binaries which are generated from a *unique* source code which support all those versions. If you have a compiler you can install pywin32 extension by using any Python version. --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/ http://code.google.com/p/psutil/ 2011/1/27 Octavian Rasnita <orasn...@gmail.com>: > From: "Emile van Sebille" <em...@fenx.com> >> On 1/26/2011 11:02 PM Octavian Rasnita said... >> >>> As we all know, Python doesn't care too much about maintaining a >>> backward compatibility >> >> Where'd you get this idea? Between v2 and v3 yes, that was the intent. > > To be sincere I was thinking to the differences between Python 2 and 3. > >> But otherwise, I think there's another miscommunication behind this... > > It might be true, however I have seen some modules that say that are ment for > Python 2.5, for 2.6 or for 2.7, so there seem to be differences between these > versions also. > > py2exe offers the following installation kits, depending on the Python > version. If you know, please tell me why there are different packages for > different versions of Python? > > py2exe-0.6.9.win32-py2.5.exe > py2exe-0.6.9.win32-py2.4.exe > py2exe-0.6.9.win32-py2.3.exe > py2exe-0.6.9.win32-py2.6.exe > py2exe-0.6.9.win32-py2.7.exe > > Thanks. > > Octavian > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
