[Patch] make test suite force use of Python 2.4

Aaron Bentley aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Mon May 16 20:00:43 BST 2005


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Christophe Cavalaria wrote:

| Aaron Bentley wrote:
| Since 2.4 is required, and the user won't have anything acceptable
| installed unless it's 2.4, let's run python2.4 instead of python.
|
| Aaron

| And what will you do when Python 2.5 gets out ?

Patch it so we can use either one, I'd imagine.

| Better to check for
| sys.version_info and display a friendly error message.

'Better' is always a value judgement.  Me, I like 'simple' and 'works
now'.  I reckon there'll be a long window before systems ship with 2.5
but not 2.4

Aaron
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