On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Ashutosh Narayan <ashuli...@yahoo.com>wrote:
> Hi, > > I wrote a script that involves "subprocess" module ; and when I ran it > on a production server I found that due to older version of Python 2.3.4 > my script failed to execute. > > I have the following python version on one of the RedHat servers. > Python 2.3.4 (#1, Feb 18 2008, 17:17:04) > [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)] on linux2 > > Now, the concern is of updating Python version to 2.6.1 w/o effecting > other things eg: system-config-* on RedHat machine which are dependent > on current Python version 2.3.4 > > So far I have downloaded the source tar ball, untarred it and NOT yet > executed - > ./configure --prefix=/opt where I want it to land. Can I now run make, make > install ? > > Any inputs on whether this is the right way to do withoutoverriding current > default Python ? > > 1. Install to a different prefix on the system (/usr/local/, /opt etc). 2. Use virtualenv > Thank you, > > > ~ Ashutosh Narayan > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- --Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
