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Edward Diener  
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 More options Oct 5 2012, 8:16 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
From: Edward Diener <eldie...@tropicsoft.invalid>
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 08:16:36 -0400
Local: Fri, Oct 5 2012 8:16 am
Subject: Re: Coexistence of Python 2.x and 3.x on same OS
On 9/30/2012 3:38 PM, Andrew Berg wrote:

> On 2012.09.30 14:14, Edward Diener wrote:
>> The situation is so confusing on Windows, where the file associations,
>> registry entries, and other internal software which allows a given
>> Python release to work properly when invoking Python is so complicated,
>> that I have given up on trying to install more than one Python release
>> and finding a relaible, foolproof way of switching between them. So
>> although I would like to use the latest 3.x series on Windows I have
>> decide to stick with the latest 2.x series instead because much software
>> using Python does not support 3.x yet.

> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0397/

> Unix-based OSes should already obey the shebang line, and on Windows,
> there's py.exe in 3.3 that will launch the intended version based on
> that shebang line. While I was using the alpha/beta versions of 3.3, I
> had no problems invoking either 3.2 or 3.3 with the shebang line on Windows.

Thanks ! I will get this and hopefully it will do what I want.

 
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