"Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sal wrote: | > I'm currently running Windows version 2.5.1 and would like to upgrade | > to 2.5.2. My question is, can I just go ahead and install the new | > version over the old or should I remove the old version with add/ | > remove programs first? The old version is in a directory named | > Python25. | | You can do either. Since there's no change of major version the | executable will have the same path, and the deinstall handily leaves all | files that weren't part of the original install in place. So if it suits | your sense of neatness, by all means deinstall before reinstallation.
I would leave things alone unless you really want to start from scratch. If you have installed any 3rd party packages that put files in Python25/DLLs or Python25/Libs/site-packages, I would not trust the uninstaller to not disturb anything. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
