On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 12:35:27 AM UTC+5:30, Travis Griggs wrote: > (I realize that this may be seen as off topic for as a general > python question, but given my historical experience with the Debian > community's predilection to answer all questions with a grumpy "go > read the very very very very large and ever shifting fine manual", > I'm hoping for better luck here.)
> Does anyone have experience with using newer versions of python > debian packages (in particular, python3 and python3-bson-ext from > 'testing') on older stable versions ('wheezy' in this case)? If > someone's figured out how to do this easily, I'd love to hear the > recipe! Wheezy appears to have a python3 (though not the latest) https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/python3 Chris said: > Alternatively, you could just run Debian Jessie. I have a few Jessie > systems on the network, with a Python 3.4 IIRC, and there've been no > stability problems lately. Both options are pretty easy. I'm not so sure. There's quite a brawl going on right now on debian users over systemd. [I am running testing myself] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list