sys.path with multiple Python installations

[Xavier Lapointe Desjardins]

Hi everyone ),

this is my first post on the mailing list, so I'll try to be clear
enough. I've on my computer WinXp x64 with python 2.5 and 2.6
installed. When I tried to run a small script using smtplib using Python
2.6, I got that error message:

"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "< My projet path >\sandbox.py", line 2, in <module>
import smtplib
File "C:\Python25\Lib\smtplib.py", line 44, in <module>
import socket
File "C:\Python25\Lib\socket.py", line 45, in <module>
import _socket
ImportError: Module use of python25.dll conflicts with this version of
Python.

"


So as you can see, it looks inside Python 2.5 directories, not 2.6. I
took a look at both sys.path (2.5 and 2.6), and remarked that Python 2.5
have its own path list, but 2.6 got its own + the 2.5 paths creating
conflicts.
Is there a way to avoid this? I thought removing every single path in
python 2.6 that linked to 2.5, but maybe there's another reason/solution
or something I should know?

After googling a bit I saw that similar post:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-July/498511.html, but
the guy is on Linux.


Thanks a lot,

Xavier