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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Issues installing Python 2.7
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 12:40:36 -0500
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On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 11:53:10 +1100, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> declaimed the following:

>billyfurlong@gmail.com wrote:

>
>> Add this to the bashrc
>> export PATH=$PATH:/opt/python2.7/bin/
>
>I'm not so sure about that, but I don't have time to investigate right now.
>
	If this is for the user login (and where it won't conflict with the
system startup processes) I'd have swapped the $PATH and /opt... order --
putting the 2.7 bin directory ahead of the system bin directory.
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