I sometimes have more than one version of Python installed on my system. Since I use an RPM based Linux distribution I prefer to build and install all of my Python packages as RPMs so that I can keep them in a repository. Having multiple versions of Python means that I get a lot of package conflicts. The solution that I have found most useful is to append the version of Python used to build the package to the name of the package. For a while I was patching each package as I updated it. Needless to say this can become quite a hassle. Lately I have been patching Distutil's bdist_rpm.py file. I've attached the patch to this message. Ussage is simple: If the setup script is invoked with --add-python-version-to-name then the version is appended to the name of the RPM package, otherwise nothing new is done. I find this patch very useful and I'd like to have it included in the main distutils distribution. I'd appreciate any comments that would help get this included. Tony -- Anthony Joseph Seward