[Tutor] Question about installing 2.51

[Kent Johnson]

Dick Moores wrote:
> XP, Python 2.5
> 
> I just downloaded python-2.5.1.msi from python.org. During the 
> installation process (which I aborted), I was told, "This Update will 
> replace your existing Python25 installation".
> 
> What exactly does this mean? What will happen, for example, to all my 
> scripts that are in E:\Python25\dev? Or to the packages I've put into 
> E:\Python25\Lib\site-packages?

In general minor releases (x.y.z) install over any existing x.y.w 
release preserving stuff you have installed into x.y.z. In particular 
site-packages will be preserved. Not sure about \dev since AFAIK that is 
not part of the standard distribution.

You could just copy E:\Python25 to be safe before you do the install.

Kent