At 02:00 PM 8/27/2007, Alan Gauld wrote: >"Dick Moores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > installation process (which I aborted), I was told, "This Update > > will > > replace your existing Python25 installation". > > > > What exactly does this mean? What will happen, for example, to all > > my > > scripts that are in E:\Python25\dev? Or to the packages I've put > > into > > E:\Python25\Lib\site-packages? > >Probably all will be well. However I generally think its a bad idea to >keep >your scripts inside the Python folder structure since it makes it >harder >to share them over multiple Python versions and of course there is the >small risk that an upgrade like this might destroy them (if for >example >Python acquired a dev sub folder structure!) > >I always create a separate folder structure for my python code and >point >python at it using the PYTHONPATH env variable (or sys.path). > >But that may not be a generally held view...
Thanks very much, Alan and Kent. I took your advice. Backed up Python25, and created a PythonWork folder outside of Python25, for my stuff. Don't know why I didn't do the latter long before! The installation went fine. Dick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
