Re: ubuntu python 2.7 variations

2019-07-29 Thread Robin Becker
On 29/07/2019 12:33, Chris Angelico wrote: . Should I always be using self build python versions? If you want to maintain your own Python, then by all means, go ahead. I don't maintain my own Python 2.7, but I have a number of Python 3.x builds, since Debian Stretch doesn't ship with a

Re: ubuntu python 2.7 variations

2019-07-29 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 8:50 PM Robin Becker wrote: > My question is that since the package builders feel able to modify and affect > behaviour in such a simple case will they do it randomly elsewhere perhaps > leading to other less obvious changes. > > Should I always be using self build python v

ubuntu python 2.7 variations

2019-07-29 Thread Robin Becker
I help maintain apps on a number of machines and recently a bug surfaced which affected some of them using the preppy template module; the bug ended up being the way tokenize worked as in the following # from StringIO import StringIO import tokenize, token L = [] s='