[Python-ideas] Fwd: improve compatibility

[Eric V. Smith]

On 12/21/2014 9:31 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 21 December 2014 at 20:33, Liam Marsh <liam.marsh.home at gmail.com
> <mailto:liam.marsh.home at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello again
> 
>     a few days later, i wad a new idea:
>     the user who wants the 2.X modules, the 3.2 and 3.4 modules to work
>     will probably install the three versions.
>     so, is it possible to have the <somepath>\Python\python34;
>     <somepath>\Python\python32; and <somepath>\Python\python27 dirs, and
>     the <somepath>\Python\PythonAutoVersion program, useing the comment
>     "#py ver XX" to chose which version will take care of it?
>     (same thing with the IDLE)
> 
> 
> You're exploring a space which already has a large array of tools
> available to address it. In particular, selective application upgrades
> is one of the features provided by virtual environments. If someone so
> desires, *.pth files can be used to share modules between different
> virtual environments (although this isn't a common practice - virtual
> environments are generally aimed at providing near total isolation of an
> application's dependency stack from other virtual environments on the
> system).

I thought he was looking for something like the py launcher, implemented
for Windows as PEP 397, and discussed for Linux here:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-April/027633.html

-- 
Eric.