On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 00:18 -0700, Rob Healey wrote: > Greetings: > > Could anyone explain why there are so many discrepancies between > Python-2.7.2-12 and Python-3.3.02? > > This is from Python-3.3.0a2: > ------------------------------------------ > [Frog@DancingSquirrels Documents]$ python3 > Python 3.3.0a2 (default, Apr 13 2012, 16:55:12) This appears to be a python that you've built locally from the 3.3.0a2 tarball; the giveaway are all the "local"s in the sysconfig e.g. this one: [...snip...] > platstdlib = /usr/local/lib/python3.3 [...snip...] > From Python-2.7.2-12 This is the python from rpm [...] > stdlib = /usr/lib64/python2.7 The "lib64" stuff is from a patch we apply "downstream" when we build our RPMs in order to allow both 32-bit and 64-bit build of python to be installed: 32-bit builds go in /usr/lib; 64-bit ones go in /usr/lib64. The jargon name for this is "multilib". Hope this is helpful Dave -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
