Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of Python3


Ignore:
Timestamp:
12/22/2023 03:17:43 PM (4 months ago)
Author:
pierre
Comment:

--

Legend:

Unmodified
Added
Removed
Modified

  • Python3

    v2 v3  
    55If you ever are running such an old system that you need to upgrade the version of Python3 to a new minor version, you will need to find suitable versions of all the packages which installed modules in site-python and recompile them.
    66
    7 However, if there is a new release of the same minor version (3.10, 3.9, etc) you can just upgrade that and the existing modules should continue to work. Although current 3.10 is in 'bugfix' status, several of the previous series are still receiving security fixes (back to 3.7 in September 2022), see [https://www.python.org/downloads/source/]
    8 
    9 
    10 [wiki:Programming Up][[br]]
    11 [wiki:BlfsNotes Top]
     7However, if there is a new release of the same minor version (e.g. 3.12 to 3.12.1) you can just upgrade that and the existing modules should continue to work. Although current 3.10 is in 'bugfix' status, several of the previous series are still receiving security fixes (back to 3.8 in August 2023), see [https://www.python.org/downloads/source/]