On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Eric Dorsey <dors...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to teach myself Linux, and so I'm running Ubuntu (Gutsy Gibbon) > as a virtual machine. I went to terminal, started up Python and realized it > was version 2.5 so I thought I'd just upgrade to 2.6.1 After doing some > Googling around, it seems that Ubuntu is highly reliant on Python 2.5, so > upgrading isn't so simple after all. > Is this just Ubuntu that is so integrated with Python, or all flavors of > Linux? Doesn't this hinder developers who use Ubuntu (and Linux?) as their > primary OS when new versions of Python come out? > > I have been using Windows forever, but everyone says Linux is the > development environment. Thoughts? > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > Just a quick reply until you get a better answer: I'm using Ubuntu Linux and I have Python 2.5.2 is the default version. I have recently downloaded and installed python3.0 without any problems. All I have to do is to specify that I want to use python3.0 >From the terminal type python and you get python2.5 Type python3.0 and you get python3.0. You can have multiple python versions on your machine. -- لا أعرف مظلوما تواطأ الناس علي هضمه ولا زهدوا في إنصافه كالحقيقة.....محمد الغزالي "No victim has ever been more repressed and alienated than the truth" Emad Soliman Nawfal Indiana University, Bloomington http://emnawfal.googlepages.com --------------------------------------------------------
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