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Originally Posted by BetterRed
@JSWolf - what happens if you uninstall that version of Python, do the plugins still work?
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That will depend on the plugin. If you uninstall the last version of a 2.x Python runtime you had on a system, then plugins requiring a 2.x Python runtime will stop working.
Python runtimes generally ensure good forward compatibility as long as you stay on a major version; i.e., code written for 2.4.x will typically work on 2.5.x, 2.6.x, and 2.7.x, and code written for 3.0.x will tend to work on 3.2.x, 3.3.x, 3.4.x.
Compatibility between minor releases (i.e., 2.7.6 versus 2.7.7 versus 2.7.8 etc) is almost a given since they're bugfix-only releases; problems there happen very, very rarely, and you can generally run code written for 2.7.something on earlier 2.7 versions. This is especially true for Python 2.x, since it's in conservation mode (no newer 2.x versions will be released, just bugfixes.)