This is one of those posts where I’m setting a marker for when the sh** hits the fan, so to speak. There are no deep dark secrets revealed here, though there is some geek talk after the jump. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
I installed Python 2.7 last night without any issues. Frankly, I was stunned. I expected the build process to be uneventful- and it was. However, since I’m running Debian/Testing, I figured I’d start getting all manner of strange behavior and failures from programs that rely on the pre-2.7 stuff. So far, no issues.
For now, the install is in my /usr/local directory. I’ve also installed python-markdown and python-lxml. Markdown was a source install and presented no issues. To get lxml installed, I also had to install the python-installer easy_install, part of the setuptools package. No problems encountered anywhere along the way.
Inspecting the python packages installed via aptitude shows that there’s quite a bit there. I suppose I’ll just have to wait and see which of those take exception to the new interpreter. Or, more likely, the new interpreter won’t be able to find those packages and cough up errors accordingly. Regardless, I’ll fix them as I run into them.