> I can work with this (have not tried though), but there must be a > more elegant solution than symlinking my way forward...
I don't really understand what you are trying to do, but I would advise to use environment variables to control the behaviour of the fake scripts in /usr/local/bin In bash you can do export PYVERSION=2.5 And from that time onwards everything defaults to python2.5. note the ${PYVERSION} that I have included now in the sample scripts below to select the python version. I don't think you need to, but if you want to change the environment variable inside python you can set environment variables with something like os.environ.????? Look at the docs. Caveat1: I have not tested this, but it should work ok. The setup I use is much simpler: just default to python2.7 Caveat2: Arch linux packagers dont use a consistent naming of things: There exists /usr/bin/virtualenv3, but there does not exist /usr/bin/sphinx-build3 (it is /usr/bin/sphinx-build) Somebody should send a bug to the package maintainer. PS: Once you setup a workaround to bypass all the python=python3 nonsense, Arch Linux is a nice linux distro, the best out there. I will stick to it. HTH ========/usr/local/bin/python=========================================== #!/bin/bash script=`readlink -f -- "$1"` case "$script" in /usr/bin*) exec python3 "$@" ;; esac exec python${PYVERSION} "$@" ========/usr/local/bin/virtualenv=========================================== #!/bin/bash script=`readlink -f -- "$1"` case "$script" in /usr/bin*) exec virtualenv3 "$@" ;; esac exec virtualenv${PYVERSION} "$@" Joep van Delft <joepvande...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > Hello Javier! > > Thanks, those links are helping a bit. And: yes, I am using Archlinux. > > But still those links assume that there are totally separate > site-packages* directories installed for both. I am not sure how I > would surpass this distinction between py-X.P and py-Y.Q. > > Should I really create a massive amount of symlinks like this?: > > | #!/usr/bin/zsh > | for d in ~/src/mypackage/**/*(/); do > | # matches all directories > | mkdir -p "~/src/py-2.7/mypackage/${d#*src/mypackage}" > | mkdir -p "~/src/py-3.4/mypackage/${d#*src/mypackage}" > | done > | for f in ~/src/mypackage/**/^*.pyc(.); do > | # matches all files except for *.pyc > | ln -s "$f" "~/src/py-2.7/mypackage${f#*src/mypackage}" > | ln -s "$f" "~/src/py-3.4/mypackage${f#*src/mypackage}" > | done > > ...and then set $PYTHONPATH according to the target version in a > #!/usr/local/bin-script? > > I can work with this (have not tried though), but there must be a > more elegant solution than symlinking my way forward... > > Cheers! > > > Joep > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list