On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Generally speaking, unless you are an expert, you should not use make > install when installing Python from source, because it will replace the > system Python with the newly installed one. > > Instead use `sudo make altinstall`
Mea culpa, forgot that. Yes, use altinstall. Although it's probably not a problem to replace 2.6.6 with 2.7.2 - I doubt that'll break many things. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
