Re: Python 2.0.1; transition plans for woody
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 05:21:39PM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
>
> With the default setup, stuff in /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages would be
> ignored by 2.0.1. In order to make the transition easier, we might decide to
> append /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages to the sys.path, though:
>
> Almost all pure Python modules that are currently installed in the python1.5
> directory will work with 2.0.1; Python 2.0.1 is almost completely backwards
> compatible, and one might consider all remaining problems bugs in the potato
> packages.
>
> Binary modules in /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages won't work.
>
well, some time ago I symlinked some modules from python1.5 to python2.0
(binary ones) and surprisingly they worked (python just printed warning message
about incompatible API)
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