that it did - sorry. two that are tagged: no merging, just the later one in the LO. and in the case of different version, it'll still go by LO (won't even know about the different version... that part of Bash has never heard of versions... and to make it smart if it did (ie what version of what mod means that what tag on what version of what mod about it would probably be impossible... probably even harder than saying that in a non confusing way).
It would probably be safer to uninstall the old stuff first but installing the new version of Python should install and register itself properly if you install it with the older version.
safety no problem... the last installed (with default options and if you're asking this question you are no doubt not setting environment variables yourself) python will be used as default... but why waste the space with the older version? I don't know of anything current anymore that requires python 2.5x rather than python 2.6x (but not much stuff has migrated to 3x yet... and Bash definitely won't for a while - especially since wxpython doesn't have 3x support so that would disable the gui which doesn't strike me as a good thing).
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