Building Python From Ports

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2006, Ted Johnson wrote:
>Hi;
>The latest and greatest Python is version 2.5; however, I seem to only be able to build version 2.4.3  from the port. I ran my standard battery of clean-up and get ready commands:
>
...
>but that didn't change things. How do I upgrade to python 2.5.0?

Personally I would wait a bit as the .0 releases often have
``interesting'' problems (e.g. python-2.4.0 had major problems
with the Berkeley database routines).

Bill
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