Another thread touched on the dangers of doing this, if other applications depend on the older version of Python.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/51c8fba4098879ad/734b6bdac1d74b89?lnk=st&q=&rnum=10#734b6bdac1d74b89 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
