On Tuesday 26 January 2016 10:21:07 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 2:11 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > On Tuesday 26 January 2016 09:20:16 Wolfgang Maier wrote: > >> I have used 2.7 and 3.2 side-by-side for two years or so on Ubuntu > >> 12.04. Never encountered any problem except for a few times that I > >> accidentally tried to run something with python when I should have > >> used python3. > > > > I think thats unavoidable. ;-) > > > > I'm not sure what I'll need to go with it, but we'll find out today. > > > > Thanks Wolfgang > > Here's what I'd recommend :) > > $ sudo apt-get build-dep python3 > $ sudo apt-get install mercurial > $ hg clone https://hg.python.org/cpython > $ cd cpython > $ ./configure > $ make > $ sudo make install
Message marked as important, should I need to. It turns out the script actually works fine on 2.7.3. Thanks for the advice Chris, it will be helpfull in that event. > That should get you Python 3.6 with a whole lot of new features above > 3.2. (And yes, 3.6 and 3.2 can happily coexist too.) After that, > you'll want to use pip exclusively for installing Python modules (you > can use apt-get to grab packages for your 3.2 install, but it won't do > anything for your 3.6), but other than that, you should have a > perfectly working system that runs the very latest in Pythons. > > ChrisA Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
