[Discuss] Python script question

[gcmarx at gmail.com (Gordon Marx)]

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> Here at work, we encapsulate all products so the product does not depend
> on anything installed on the system (other than things like the kernel
> and libc. Compilers, languages like Perl and Python, libraries, such as
> cplex, et. al. I've probably got about 6 different copies of Python 2.6.
> I have no control of this since this is done in Toronto.

We don't go that far, but we do the same sort of thing -- don't rely
on the system, everything gets installed in a custom directory
structure, so there are machines on our network that have
/blah/bin/python2.{4,5,6,7}. That way, at least you only have one copy
of Python2.6 that everyone can use.