On 3/20/14 9:58 AM, notbob wrote:
I've installed python 3.3 on my Slack box, which by default comes with python 2.7. I know how to fire up the different IDLE environments, but how do I differentiate between the scripts?
hi notbob, the two (or more) IDLE environments run very nicely side-by-side. If you access your scripts from the same directory (I do not) there really is no problem. The reason is that the .pyc files created for python2.x are only used by python2. The .pyc files for python3.x are kept (by a naming convention) in __pycache__ , so there really is no problem. Having said that, the only problem is that your script for python3 might not run in python2 (for various reasons) but the problem is not that the scripts are contained in the same folder.
I keep my python2 scripts in one folder ~/Documents/Python2/ and my python3 scripts in another one ~/Documents/Python3/
I add the two folders in the python paths browser (using site-packages) so that when I start IDLE for python2 it pulls its scripts from ~/Documents/Python2/ and when I start IDLE for python3 it pulls its scripts from ~/Documents/Python3/
There are *many* ways to organize this. Often I have to maintain two scripts (packages) one for each version. Although, I try to make my scripts run in both environments. Often I have IDLE(2) ane IDLE(3) running and testing at the same time on the same box. This works very well.
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