Gael Varoquaux wrote:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:30:14PM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
Maybe the system should come with two pythons installed,
What you propose resembles very much to what MacOSX does... I see on the different scientific-Python-related mailing lists how users have difficulties with MacOSX
It differs from MacOSX, because MacOSX only comes with one Python installed. A lot of the problems go away if you install another one, but things aren't set up that way by default.
I think this discussion is really going on because Python does not have good library-versioning support.
That's probably true. I was wondering recently whether there should be some way to specify which version of a module you want when you import it, e.g. import fooble[3] which means you want a fooble with API version 3 or something compatible with it. -- Greg