Multiple python environments (was Python 2.7 Debian 6.0. Squeeze)

[rusi]

On May 18, 12:41 pm, rusi <rustompm... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 18, 12:05 pm, Sebastien Douche <sdou... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 17:27, Jorge Romero <jorgeromero... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I tried Googling about Python 2.7 on Debian Squeeze, but did not find
> > > anything but discussions -.-. Anyone out there that can point me some
> > > helpful material or anyone who had luck running 2.7 on Debian?
>
> > I use pythonbrew :http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pythonbrew
>
> Interesting. Is this an alternative to virtualenv?
>
> My overall impression of this area is that there are a zillion
> alternatives
> (Well ok exaggeration -- more alternatives than needed)
> And all of them fail on some essential aspects.
>
> Yesterday I was trying to setup python on a client site and
> easy_install kept giving errors. Not easy_install printing errors but
> python printing backtraces.
>
> After repeatedly trying it a few times the errors disappeared.
>
> God alone knows... (or maybe Heisenberg...)


pythonbrew does not run on windows
[Just recording it here to save others time if/when they reach here]