Re: Coexistence of Python 2.x and 3.x on same OS

2012-10-06 Thread Ian Kelly
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 1:27 AM, wrote: > Using Python on Windows is a dream. > > Python uses and needs the system, but the system does > not use Python. > > Every Python version is installed in its own isolated > space, site-packages included and without any defined > environment variable. Every

Re: Coexistence of Python 2.x and 3.x on same OS

2012-10-06 Thread wxjmfauth
Using Python on Windows is a dream. Python uses and needs the system, but the system does not use Python. Every Python version is installed in its own isolated space, site-packages included and without any defined environment variable. Every Python can be seen as a different application. Knowing

Re: Coexistence of Python 2.x and 3.x on same OS

2012-10-05 Thread Edward Diener
On 10/5/2012 5:32 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 08:15:30 -0400, Edward Diener declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: Windows installs of Python do not distinguish releases by Pythonx(.x) but just install different versions of Python in different directories.

Re: Coexistence of Python 2.x and 3.x on same OS

2012-10-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 05/10/2012 13:15, Edward Diener wrote: On 10/1/2012 12:02 PM, Alister wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:14:17 -0400, Edward Diener wrote: Has there been any official software that allows both the Python 2.x and 3.x releases to coexist on the same OS so that the end-user can easily switch betwee

Re: Coexistence of Python 2.x and 3.x on same OS

2012-10-05 Thread Edward Diener
On 9/30/2012 3:38 PM, Andrew Berg wrote: On 2012.09.30 14:14, Edward Diener wrote: The situation is so confusing on Windows, where the file associations, registry entries, and other internal software which allows a given Python release to work properly when invoking Python is so complicated, tha

Re: Coexistence of Python 2.x and 3.x on same OS

2012-10-05 Thread Edward Diener
On 10/1/2012 12:02 PM, Alister wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:14:17 -0400, Edward Diener wrote: Has there been any official software that allows both the Python 2.x and 3.x releases to coexist on the same OS so that the end-user can easily switch between them when invoking Python scripts after e

Re: Coexistence of Python 2.x and 3.x on same OS

2012-10-05 Thread Edward Diener
On 10/1/2012 1:32 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 23:06:04 -0400, Edward Diener declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: My thought is a program distributed by Python which finds the versions of Python on an OS, lets the end-user choose which version should be in

Re: Coexistence of Python 2.x and 3.x on same OS

2012-10-01 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 01/10/2012 20:36, David Robinow wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Dave Angel wrote: The problem with that is that one has to already being using 3.3 to use this facility. I was hoping for a solution which was backwards compatible with Python 2.x. ... That does not solve the problem fo

Re: Coexistence of Python 2.x and 3.x on same OS

2012-10-01 Thread David Robinow
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Dave Angel wrote: >> The problem with that is that one has to already being using 3.3 to >> use this facility. I was hoping for a solution which was backwards >> compatible with Python 2.x. >>... >> That does not solve the problem for Python 2.x distributions. > I

Re: Coexistence of Python 2.x and 3.x on same OS

2012-10-01 Thread Alister
On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:14:17 -0400, Edward Diener wrote: > Has there been any official software that allows both the Python 2.x and > 3.x releases to coexist on the same OS so that the end-user can easily > switch between them when invoking Python scripts after each has been > installed to their o

Re: Coexistence of Python 2.x and 3.x on same OS

2012-10-01 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 01/10/2012 04:06, Edward Diener wrote: On 9/30/2012 3:38 PM, Andrew Berg wrote: Unix-based OSes should already obey the shebang line, and on Windows, there's py.exe in 3.3 that will launch the intended version based on that shebang line. The problem with that is that one has to already bein

Re: Coexistence of Python 2.x and 3.x on same OS

2012-09-30 Thread Dave Angel
On 09/30/2012 11:06 PM, Edward Diener wrote: > On 9/30/2012 3:38 PM, Andrew Berg wrote: >> On 2012.09.30 14:14, Edward Diener wrote: >>> The situation is so confusing on Windows, where the file associations, >>> registry entries, and other internal software which allows a given >>> Python release t

Re: Coexistence of Python 2.x and 3.x on same OS

2012-09-30 Thread Andrew Berg
On 2012.09.30 22:06, Edward Diener wrote: > The problem with that is that one has to already being using 3.3 to use > this facility. I was hoping for a solution which was backwards > compatible with Python 2.x. It's a separate tool that comes with 3.3. You can install 3.3 and never use the actual

Re: Coexistence of Python 2.x and 3.x on same OS

2012-09-30 Thread Edward Diener
On 9/30/2012 3:38 PM, Andrew Berg wrote: On 2012.09.30 14:14, Edward Diener wrote: The situation is so confusing on Windows, where the file associations, registry entries, and other internal software which allows a given Python release to work properly when invoking Python is so complicated, tha

Re: Coexistence of Python 2.x and 3.x on same OS

2012-09-30 Thread Andrew Berg
On 2012.09.30 14:14, Edward Diener wrote: > The situation is so confusing on Windows, where the file associations, > registry entries, and other internal software which allows a given > Python release to work properly when invoking Python is so complicated, > that I have given up on trying to in