Comment 0 for bug 379573

In Jaunty, when both python-wxgtk2.6 and python-wxgtk2.8 are installed, this happens by default:
>>> import wx
>>> wx.VERSION
(2, 6, 3, 2, '')

In Intrepid, this happens by default:
>>> import wx
>>> wx.VERSION
(2, 8, 8, 0, '')

The behaviour in Jaunty looks like a bug to me.

Moreover in Jaunty 2.8 seems to be configured as the default:
$ ls /etc/alternatives | grep wx
wx2.5.pth
wx2.6.pth
$ sudo update-alternatives --config wx2.6.pth
[sudo] password for stani:

Er zijn 2 alternatieven die 'wx2.6.pth' voorzien.

  Selectie Alternatieven
-----------------------------------------------
*+ 1 /usr/lib/wx/python/wx2.8.pth
          2 /usr/lib/wx/python/wx2.6.pth

So with "update-alternatives" I can't select that "import wx", imports wxPython 2.8

In Jaunty if I look to wx.pth:
$ cat /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wx.pth
wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode

In Jaunty many wx*.pth are added in comparison to Intrepid (but this is probably irrelevant):
$ locate .pth | grep wx
/etc/alternatives/wx2.5.pth
/etc/alternatives/wx2.6.pth
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode.pth
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx.pth
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx.pth
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode.pth
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wx.pth
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx.pth
/usr/lib/wx/python/wx2.8.pth
/usr/share/pyshared/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode.pth
/usr/share/pyshared/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx.pth
/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/wx2.5.pth
/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/wx2.6.pth

In Intrepid this gives:
$ locate .pth | grep wx
/etc/alternatives/wx2.4.pth
/etc/alternatives/wx2.5.pth
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wx.pth
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx.pth
/usr/lib/wx/python/wx2.6.pth
/usr/lib/wx/python/wx2.8.pth
/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/wx2.4.pth
/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/wx2.5.pth

In Jaunty:
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/python2.6', '/usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Numeric', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gst-0.10', '/var/lib/python-support/python2.6', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gtk-2.0', '/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wx-2.6-gtk2-unicode', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode']

In Intrepid:
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/python2.5', '/usr/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Numeric', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gst-0.10', '/var/lib/python-support/python2.5', '/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode']

So in Jaunty both wx-2.6 and wx2.8 are added to the sys.path, while in Intrepid only wx-2.8 was present.
To me it seems like a bug that both wx 2.6 and 2.8 are in sys.path

See also this discussion on the wxpython users mailing list upstream: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.wxpython/70340

Some wxpython programs are now showing bugs as they are not compatible anymore with wxpython2.6

If possible, I would like to see this fixed that in Jaunty (like in intrepid) wxPython 2.8 is the default if both 2.6 and 2.8 are installed or that at least the user can configure it in a way.