Mixing python 2 and 3x

[twobit]

Wondering how i can have python 2x and 3x installed at the same time...

Currently have python 3.2.3 installed, but i have to use python2.7 for the programming environment i need (MCP)
can i have my system running on 3.2.3 and sandbox python2.7? or if it was running alongside how do i tell it which one to use for what programs?

HELP!

[krinn]

python is slot, so you will have both install.
use eselect python (see options there) to manage your python version to use as 2 and 3
and you can alter a python program to match /usr/bin/python2 or /usr/bin/python3 instead of /usr/bin/python
and you have python-updater that will help you rebuild programs so they work for python 2 and 3 if possible.

The easy solve for you is forcing default python to be 2.7 as you don't use 3 yet.

[Anon-E-moose]

I'm wondering what the state of python 3 is, at least as far as being usable for everything.
I admit I haven't kept up with it over the last year, thus the query.

I only have python 2.7 installed, but I had to mask a few dev-python packages this morning
as they wanted to use a target of 3.2.

So what's up devs?

Thanks
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