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> if you try to install both python-numpy and python-numpy-mkl-bin, well, you have to choose. That's how Python works It's possible to have as many Python vers
by tempay 4y ago
> if you try to install both python-numpy and python-numpy-mkl-bin, well, you have to choose. That's how Python works
It's possible to have as many Python versions as you like installed at the same time. All of the libraries and headers include the major/minor version, packages are installed in `lib/pythonX.Y` and the Python binary itself is available as `pythonX.Y`. Few distributions support this well for anything other than a single 2.x and 3.x but it's nothing to do with how Python itself works.
- doubleunplussed 4y agoThat's for different Python interpreters altogether, you still can't have multiple numpy packages in any one of them. Arch actually supports multiple Pythons just fine, I currently have a bunch of 3.x Python interpreters I installed from the AUR. But installing other Python packages with these interpreters indeed needs to be done outside the system's package manager, e.g. with pip -U or a venv (usually a venv for me).