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On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 23:06:04 -0400, Edward Diener
<eldiener@tropicsoft.invalid> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:


> My thought is a program distributed by Python which finds the versions 
> of Python on an OS, lets the end-user choose which version should be 
> invoked when Python is invoked, and does whatever is necessary to make 
> that version the default version.
>
	Which wouldn't be usable on any system that has to boot/process
unattended, and run's Python scripts for configuration set-up.

	Making a version "default" pretty much means being able to rewrite
the PATH environment variable... And I've seen too many messes made by
some software already (including once having two generations of Python
showing up in one PATH!)

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