Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!dedibox.gegeweb.org!gegeweb.eu!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!nerim.net!novso.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'essentially': 0.04; 'puts': 0.07; 'subject:skip:c 10': 0.07; 'python': 0.09; 'linux/unix': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'tends': 0.09; 'windows,': 0.09; '2.7': 0.13; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'variations': 0.16; 'developers,': 0.16; 'mon,': 0.16; 'alternate': 0.17; 'tend': 0.17; 'version.': 0.17; 'windows': 0.19; 'all,': 0.21; '2.x': 0.22; 'installed': 0.23; 'linux': 0.24; 'replace': 0.27; "doesn't": 0.28; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'environment': 0.29; '(since': 0.29; 'source': 0.29; 'compatible': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; 'builds': 0.33; 'controls': 0.33; 'url:home': 0.33; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.33; 'typically': 0.33; 'version': 0.34; 'architecture': 0.34; 'updated': 0.34; 'ahead': 0.35; 'machines': 0.35; 'nov': 0.35; 'path': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'except': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'itself': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'instead': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'build': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'free': 0.61; 'dennis': 0.91; 'received:108': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: Linux compatibility Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:38:33 -0500 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < References: <5ab8efb4-d66b-42f7-9301-7048bf38fcef@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-108-68-177-195.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 29 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1353368325 news.xs4all.nl 6975 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:41113 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:33563 On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:44:37 -0800 (PST), EDI Support declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > Hi All, > > I would like know if Python 2.4.3 will be compatible with Linux RHEL 5.5 or 6.1? > Uhm... 1) Python 2.4.x is practically an antique. (I just updated my Windows machines to 2.7 from 2.5 -- and 2.7 will be the last 2.x version) 2) Python itself is essentially OS agnostic, the Linux/UNIX variations tend to come in source code form and require building on the target architecture (since practically no one has build environment on Windows, except software developers, Windows Python tends to be in pre-built binaries). You are perfectly free to build a "user" version on the OS 3) RedHat controls what version of Python is the system installed version -- typically one doesn't want to replace that as it may produce incompatibilities with system tools. Instead one builds an alternate Python and puts that version into the user PATH ahead of the system version. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/