Installing Python Script, Maintaining Reference to Python 2.6

Question

Hi,

I am trying to distribute my Python program. The program relies on version 2.6. I went through the distribution documentation: http://docs.python.org/distutils/index.html and what I have figured out so far is that I basically need to write a setup.py script. Something like:

setup(name='Distutils',
  version='1.0',
  description='Python Distribution Utilities',
  author='My Name',
  author_email='My Email',
  url='some URL',
  package_dir={'': 'src'},
  packages=[''],
 )

I would like to ensure that my program uses 2.6 interpreter library when user install it on their box. What would be the best approach to ensure that my program uses 2.6 ? Shall I distribute python 2.6 library along with my program ? Is there any alternative approach ?

Answer 1

Check sys.hexversion and make sure that it's greater than or equal to 0x02060000.