Nov. 7, 2017
1:26 p.m.
On 7 November 2017 at 20:38, Chris Barker <chris.barker@noaa.gov> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 5:04 AM, Thomas Jollans <tjol@tjol.eu> wrote:
As Ivan said earlier, perhaps the Windows installers should provide a "python3" executable, so "python3 -m pip" works everywhere.
absolutely! I really, really thought it did!!!! (I'm amazed I never heard from a single student getting bit by that...)
On Windows, use py -X.Y to select the exact version of Python you want. Maybe Unix should have a launcher like this, too? It doesn't really need to be any more complex than <grab the -X.Y argument> exec pythonX.Y $@ relying on the existence of versioned executables on Unix. (Excuse my garbled don't-really-know-how-to-do-it shell scripting...) Paul