[Scons-users] [scons-users] Support for Python 3?

[William Deegan]

On Jun 11, 2012, at 1:14 PM, Robert Lupton the Good wrote:


>> Is building a local version of python 2.7 or 3.2 a barrier for people building software?

> 

> I'd say yes, in general.  You need to commit to a complete new universe, installing all packages you need.  For example, your system might have a copy of scipy installed (non-trivial...) and you really don't want to repeat that work just to use scons.


Not sure why that matters.
Steps to profit:
1. Build py2.7 (or 3.x)
2. Use only for SCons
3. Profit (not having to install any other packages at all into that build of python)

That's what I've done many times when needed.
Even would be easy to script the whole install.

_Bill