villamil
June 10th, 2011, 08:12 PM
Hello, this is my first thread in Ubuntu, so you may assume I'm an absolute beginner, with only three weeks of Ubuntu usage.
Anyways, I have Ubuntu 10.10 which came with Python 2.6. And since I am learning to program in Python also, I am switching back and forth between Python IDLE and iPython, until I can decide for one of them.
Then I tried to upgrade to Python 2.7, and there's a problem: the packages are stored by default in the library of Python 2.6, so I can't read them when I use Python IDLE (2.7).
On the other side, if I use iPython it does read the modules, and it says that it is running version 2.6. So now I'm curious why they are running two different versions.
If I try to uninstall Python 2.6 the computer makes a big deal, so I will conform myself to not use it at all, and have the packages installed in the 2.7 library, and also iPython running the version 2.7 of Python.
Thank you.
Diego
Anyways, I have Ubuntu 10.10 which came with Python 2.6. And since I am learning to program in Python also, I am switching back and forth between Python IDLE and iPython, until I can decide for one of them.
Then I tried to upgrade to Python 2.7, and there's a problem: the packages are stored by default in the library of Python 2.6, so I can't read them when I use Python IDLE (2.7).
On the other side, if I use iPython it does read the modules, and it says that it is running version 2.6. So now I'm curious why they are running two different versions.
If I try to uninstall Python 2.6 the computer makes a big deal, so I will conform myself to not use it at all, and have the packages installed in the 2.7 library, and also iPython running the version 2.7 of Python.
Thank you.
Diego