Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: ineedpy2
Version: 1.01
Summary: Library to swap to newer python version on a multi-version system.
Home-page: https://github.com/linsomniac/ineedpy2
Author: Sean Reifschneider
Author-email: <jafo@tummy.com>
License: Python Software Foundation
Description: ineedpy2: Library to swap to newer python version on a multi-version system.
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        Find the latest Python 2 version installed on the system and if this
        program is not running on that version, re-invoke it with that version.
        
        Background
        ----------
        
        One of the problems of a system administrator is that enterprise Linux distros
        which ship with, and often require, /usr/bin/python to be a fairly old versions.
        For example, Python 2.1.  Applications can be very difficult to write such that
        they are happy on Python 2.1 and Python 2.7.  Many of these distros include a
        newer Python, but it has to be invoked as "python2.6", for example.
        
        You can change the "#!" line in the script, but this makes packaging
        more difficult.
        
        Examples
        --------
        
        To make sure you are running on the absolutely latest installed Python 2 on
        the system:
        
            import sys
            print 'Version:', sys.version_info
            import ineedpy2
            ineedpy2.rerunonlatest()
        
        If run on a system with the default Python version being 2.1, but python
        2.6 also installed will display:
        
            Version: (2, 1, 3, 'final', 0)
            Version: (2, 6, 5, 'final', 0)
        
        NOTE: Anything run before the "runonlatestpy2" will be run once on the
        older version and once on the newer version.
        
        You can also request the reinvocation only if the python minor version
        isn't at least a specific value.  In other words, "I know I need at least
        Python 2.4":
        
            from ineedpy2 import requireminor
            requireminor(4)
        
        License
        -------
        
        Copyright (c) 2011, Sean Reifschneider <jafo@tummy.com>, tummy.com, ltd.  
        Released under the Python Software Foundation License  
        For more information, see: http://docs.python.org/license.html  
        
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