where should I look for sys.stderr output?

[Carlos Ribeiro]

On Monday 12 May 2003 21:52, Steve Canfield wrote:
> I never did find where the stderr is being written to, but I did find
> my problem. My /usr/bin/python was version 1.52 and the MoinMoin
> package was expecting version 2.2. I changed this and the MoinMoin
> stuff works fine now, but a bunch of the Python system administration
> stuff tools are broken now. :(
>
> I'm leaving it as is for now because I don't feel like figuring out
> which version of python each script needs.

This is a problem that occurs frequently with some particular Linux 
distributions. It's a shame because they in fact use Python for the admin 
tools... but the fact that they never took the time to upgrade the distro to 
work with 2.2 it's a real problem.

My suggestion, in situations such as yours, is to leave the default Python 
instalation as is (i.e. #!/usr/bin/python), and then modify the bang header 
of the applications that you are sure to depend on Python 2.2 accordingly 
(#!/usr/bin/python2.2). Yes, it's true - you'll often find two or three 
different versions of Python (1.5.2, 2.1 and 2.2) co-existing in the same 
computer in this way.



Carlos Ribeiro
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