I strongly dislike Python 3

[John Bokma]

Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> writes:

> On 28/06/2010 00:03, Eric_Dexter at msn.com wrote:
>> It should be easier to have a large number of python versions on one
>> machine...  I am realy fond of 2.5 so I am probily going to start
>> compiling them or just include the python2.5 exe if I port stuff and
>> settle it that way..
>
> I have Python versions 2.1-2.7 and 3.0-3.2 installed on my Windows
> box without any problems. I don't often have to use the full range
> (mostly, in fact, for confirming that my unit tests still run on
> my few released modules). But I certainly do use several different
> ones each day where I have to make sure I'm running the same version
> as the user who's experiencing a problem.
>
> One technique I find particularly handy is to create a pythonxx.exe
> hardlink in my c:\tools (which is always on my path), pointing to
> c:\pythonxx\python.exe in turn. Then it's just a matter of: python25
> my-script.py
> Even without that, it's only a question of c:\python25\python my-script.py
> if I need to.
>
> I have in the past used a crude shebang-alike Python pre-processor
> which hands off to the right version. It's a bit sluggish, though,
> and that outweighed for me the slight convenience. YMMV

You might want to look into the assoc command to (temporarily) associate
.py & co with a different version of Python.

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John Bokma                                                               j3b

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