Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> writes: >> 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. > > Except that all 3rd party extensions and packages are missing if you > install Python manually.
True, they would have to be built or at least installed manually also. Major work, especially for a beginner. Shouldn't pick Debian Stable and then want current software... Then again, even the standard install of Python has plenty of stuff. I installed 2.7.2 on my Debian system just to try out some of the new Tk stuff. > Debian's backports should provide a well integrated Python 2.7 > package. But it doesn't. Python 2.7.2 is in Wheezy, which is the current testing version of Debian. Looks like it has about 700 release critical bugs, so it'll be a while until release. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
