How do you upgrade python?

[Cliff Wells]

On 24 Jan 2002 19:16:42 -0800
Aahz Maruch wrote:

> In article <66e1d480.0201241636.f6f368 at posting.google.com>,
> binzdupe9 <auto303982 at hushmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >Been using Linux for years. Never needed to upgrade python until now.
> >Now needing to upgrade python 2.0.1 to 2.2. for certain programs.
> >Compiling is not an issue. My question is, is there a way to migrate all
> >of the previously installed modules to 2.2, or will I need/have to 
> >recompile everything? I don't want to have two versions of python.
> >If this question has been addressed in python's docs, I must have missed
> >it.
> 
> If you're talking about external C modules, yes, you'll have to
> recompile.

And if you're using RedHat, beware of removing Python 1.5.2 as they have
scripts that depend on it and AFAIK they haven't been confirmed to work on
2.2

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