Running two python versions in 12.04

[Jim Byrnes]

On 03/12/2014 07:25 AM, drew einhorn wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:40 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 09:20:57PM -0500, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>>> I would like to add Python 3.3 to my 12.04 installation.  I am
>>> thinking of using the  deadsnakes PPA to do the installation.
>>
>
>
>> FWIW if you're fine with Python 3.2, it's available in the main 12.04
>> repo, no need for PPAs.
>
>
> A while back I faced a similar struggle with Python 2.6 vs. 2.7 on 10.04.
>
> The plug got pulled on the whole project before we resolved all the
> the issues.  There were two big ones.
>
> 1.  A deeply buried conflict between the debian way of doing things,
> and the python way.  Think we got past this one, but we were not
> able to do enough testing before the project was canceled to be sure.
>
> 2.  Getting all the necessary supporting libraries installed properly
> in the right places.  I did get the right version of pillow installed
> instead
> of the older deprecated PIL (Pythion Imaging Library).  But I was still
> struggling to get the right version of numpy working.
>
> So I hope you can get by with 3.2 that has had all the rough edges
> smoothed by the folks who put it in the production 12.04 repos, and
> not have to smooth them yourself.
>
>   --

Right now I think my needs will be meet by the standard library, but if 
I add others in the future and have problems, I will know where to start 
looking.

Thanks,  Jim