On Dec 10, 10:38 am, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/10/2011 11:53 AM, John Ladasky wrote:> Why did you specify Python > 2.7.2, instead of the 2.7.6 version that is > > being offered to me by Ubuntu Software Center? Does it matter? > > There is no Python 2.7.6. I think you have it confused with the version > 2.7.2-6. If I'm not mistaken, that appended 6 has to do with packaging > and nothing at all to do with the software itself. > > -- > CPython 3.2.2 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17640 | Thunderbird 7.0
How annoying, here's how Ubuntu Software Center described it: "Version: 2.7-6 (python2.7)" And here it is in the Synaptic Package Manager: "package: python2.7-minimal, installed version: 2.7-6" At first I considered that this truncated name might be the consequence of a Linux bug. But looking up and down my list of installed software in both Ubuntu Software Center and Synaptic, I can find version names which extend arbitrarily, such as my wxPython installation, for which the version number reads "2.8.11.0-0ubuntu4.1". Now my hypothesis is that someone manually enters the revision numbers into the Linux database, and they made a typo. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
