Re: Upgrading from 2.7 to 3.x

2012-04-26 Thread Kiuhnm
On 4/26/2012 15:02, deuteros wrote: On Thu 26 Apr 2012 07:37:20a, Kiuhnm wrote in news:4f993382$0$1378$4fafb...@reader2.news.tin.it: Python 2.7.3 and 3.2.3 (the latest versions) can coexist. Just install Python 3.2.3 in a different directory (python32, for instance). Python has been "forked"

Re: Upgrading from 2.7 to 3.x

2012-04-26 Thread Andrew Berg
On 4/26/2012 8:02 AM, deuteros wrote: > So how do I tell my IDE (Eclipse with PyDev) which version of Python I > want to use? When you start a new PyDev project, it will ask. -- CPython 3.2.3/3.3.0a2 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17790 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Upgrading from 2.7 to 3.x

2012-04-26 Thread deuteros
On Thu 26 Apr 2012 07:37:20a, Kiuhnm wrote in news:4f993382$0$1378$4fafb...@reader2.news.tin.it: > Python 2.7.3 and 3.2.3 (the latest versions) can coexist. Just install > Python 3.2.3 in a different directory (python32, for instance). > > Python has been "forked" into 2.x and 3.x because some

Re: Upgrading from 2.7 to 3.x

2012-04-26 Thread Andrew Berg
On 4/26/2012 6:37 AM, Kiuhnm wrote: > Python has been "forked" into 2.x and 3.x because some breaking changes > ought to be made to the language in order to improve it and clean it up. That's not really a good way to put it. 2.6 and 2.7 will get security fixes, but there won't be a 2.8 unless some

Re: Upgrading from 2.7 to 3.x

2012-04-26 Thread Kiuhnm
On 4/26/2012 13:37, Kiuhnm wrote: On 4/26/2012 5:08, deuteros wrote: I'm fairly new to Python I have version 2.7 installed on my computer. However my professor wants us all to use the latest version of Python. How do I go about upgrading? Do I just install the new version? Do I have to do anythi

Re: Upgrading from 2.7 to 3.x

2012-04-26 Thread Kiuhnm
On 4/26/2012 5:08, deuteros wrote: I'm fairly new to Python I have version 2.7 installed on my computer. However my professor wants us all to use the latest version of Python. How do I go about upgrading? Do I just install the new version? Do I have to do anything with the old version already ins

Re: Upgrading from 2.7 to 3.x

2012-04-25 Thread Stefan Behnel
deuteros, 26.04.2012 05:08: > I'm fairly new to Python I have version 2.7 installed on my computer. However > my professor wants us all to use the latest version of Python. Did he/she explicitly tell you to install Python 3? 2.7 is the latest version of Python 2.x, some people may mix that up. O

Re: Upgrading from 2.7 to 3.x

2012-04-25 Thread Xavier Ho
What operating system are you running? Cheers, Xav On 26 April 2012 13:08, deuteros wrote: > I'm fairly new to Python I have version 2.7 installed on my computer. > However > my professor wants us all to use the latest version of Python. How do I go > about upgrading? Do I just install the ne

Upgrading from 2.7 to 3.x

2012-04-25 Thread deuteros
I'm fairly new to Python I have version 2.7 installed on my computer. However my professor wants us all to use the latest version of Python. How do I go about upgrading? Do I just install the new version? Do I have to do anything with the old version already installed? -- http://mail.python.org