[Tutor] Re: books arrived

[Lance E Sloan]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:04:29AM -0400, Kirk Bailey wrote:
> Syntax is ok, but the modules I need to study more. and alas, I am stuck
> for the time being with 1.5.2, my hardware guru says we would have to
> upgrade critter to handle the new version.

What kind of critter are we talking about?  If it's your desktop machine, 
just try installing a newer version.  If it's a multiuser machine you're 
sharing, like Linux or some kind of UNIX, if you have access to a C 
compiler, you can build and install the new version of Python in your home 
directory and run it from there.  I've done that several times myself, to 
get the "configure" parameters right, which I then pass on to the sysadmins 
here.  (They like to do all the builds themselves.)

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