[omaha] Multiple Pythons on Windows

[Steve Young]

Beautiful!  Well, I did have to reinstall 3.1 as I forgot I had uninstalled
it some time ago.  But even after installing 3.1, 2.5 was still the
default.  I made the batch file and it works perfectly.   I had thought I
would have to tinker around with virtualenv, but then I realized that is
mainly for creating different env's within a major release.  Have to wait
and try it later!  This is a great solution.

Thanks Jeff.

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Jeff Hinrichs <jeffh at delasco.com> wrote:

> I like the idea
>
> "I'm using 2.5, 2.6, and 3.0 from the shell with one line batch scripts of
> the form:
>
> @c:\programs\pythonX.Y\python.exe %*
>
> Name them pythonX.Y.bat and put them somewhere in your PATH. Copy the file
> for the preferred minor version (i.e. the latest) to pythonX.bat. (E.g.
> copy
> python2.6.bat python2.bat.) Then you can use python2 file.py from
> anywhere."
>
> from:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/341184/can-i-install-python-3-x-and-2-x-on-the-same-computer
>
> You could leave python2x as your default on windows, then create a
> python3.bat file (see above) and tell it to use the other version.  Then
> 95%
> of the time you wouldn't do anything different but while contemplating
> koans, you could just
> python3 contemplate_koans.py
>
> .02
> Jeff
>
> -Jeff
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Steve Young <wereapwhatwesow at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I currently have Python 2.54 and Python 3.1 installed on a Windows Vista
> > machine. 2.5 is my default version.  I was going to try Greg Malcom's
> > Python
> > Koans <http://bitbucket.org/gregmalcolm/python_koans/wiki/Home> that
> Jeff
> > presented at the last meeting.  It works with Python 2.6 and 3.1.  I
> can't
> > remember (or find searching) how to easily switch between the two
> versions
> > of Python on my machine. I will still be using 2.5 95% of the time, but
> > want
> > to jump into 3.1 to do the Koans, and then jump back into 2.5 for
> > everything
> > else.  Is it as easy as opening my shell up in the 3.1 folder and
> > specifying
> > the python 3.1 executable?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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> > --Steve Young
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