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[52d29f7] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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[83f69e5d] | 7 | <!ENTITY python-download-http "http://www.python.org/ftp/python/&Python-version;/Python-&Python-version;.tar.bz2">
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[fb2e525] | 8 | <!ENTITY python-download-ftp "&gentoo-ftp-repo;/Python-&Python-version;.tar.bz2">
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[29f47569] | 9 | <!ENTITY python-md5sum "fee5408634a54e721a93531aba37f8c1">
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[48b816cb] | 10 | <!ENTITY python-size "11 MB">
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[3a94882] | 11 | <!ENTITY python-buildsize "171 MB (23MB for the test suite, additional 26MB for the documentation)">
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[48b816cb] | 12 | <!ENTITY python-time "1 SBU (additional 2.9 SBU to run the test suite)">
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[3a94882] | 13 | <!ENTITY pythonhtmldoc-download-http "http://docs.python.org/ftp/python/doc/&python-majorver;/python-&python-majorver;-docs-html.tar.bz2">
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| 15 | <!ENTITY pythonhtmldoc-size "3.3 MB">
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[52d29f7] | 16 | ]>
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| 17 |
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[3fe8b511] | 18 | <sect1 id="python" xreflabel="Python-&Python-version;">
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[256ee72c] | 19 | <?dbhtml filename="python.html" ?>
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[83f69e5d] | 20 |
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| 21 | <sect1info>
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| 22 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 23 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 24 | </sect1info>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <title>Python-&Python-version;</title>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <indexterm zone="python">
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| 29 | <primary sortas="a-Python">Python</primary>
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| 30 | </indexterm>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 33 | <title>Introduction to Python</title>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <para>The <application>Python</application> package contains the
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| 36 | <application>Python</application> development environment.
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| 37 | This is useful for object-oriented programming, writing scripts,
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| 38 | prototyping large programs or developing entire applications.</para>
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| 39 |
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[48b816cb] | 40 | <!-- Python compiled against Pth, OpenSSL, and SQLite.
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| 41 | 326 tests OK, 36 tests skipped, 0 failures -->
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| 42 |
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| 43 | &lfs65_checked;
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| 44 |
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[83f69e5d] | 45 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 46 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 47 | <listitem>
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| 48 | <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&python-download-http;"/></para>
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| 49 | </listitem>
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| 50 | <listitem>
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| 51 | <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&python-download-ftp;"/></para>
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| 52 | </listitem>
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| 53 | <listitem>
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| 54 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &python-md5sum;</para>
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| 55 | </listitem>
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| 56 | <listitem>
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| 57 | <para>Download size: &python-size;</para>
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| 58 | </listitem>
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| 59 | <listitem>
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| 60 | <para>Estimated disk space required: &python-buildsize;</para>
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| 61 | </listitem>
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| 62 | <listitem>
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| 63 | <para>Estimated build time: &python-time;</para>
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| 64 | </listitem>
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| 65 | </itemizedlist>
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| 66 |
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| 67 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
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[1970f00] | 68 |
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| 69 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required Patch</bridgehead>
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[83f69e5d] | 70 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 71 | <listitem>
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[1970f00] | 72 | <para><ulink
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[2f83800] | 73 | url="&patch-root;/Python-&Python-version;-bdb_4.8-1.patch"/></para>
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[83f69e5d] | 74 | </listitem>
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| 75 | </itemizedlist>
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| 76 |
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[2f83800] | 77 | <!-- <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Patch</bridgehead>
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[f4031b6c] | 78 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 79 | <listitem>
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| 80 | <para><ulink
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| 81 | url="&patch-root;/Python-&Python-version;-testing-1.patch"/></para>
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| 82 | </listitem>
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[879d269] | 83 | </itemizedlist> -->
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[f4031b6c] | 84 |
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[1970f00] | 85 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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[3a94882] | 86 | <title>Optional HTML Documentation</title>
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[1970f00] | 87 | <listitem>
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[3a94882] | 88 | <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&pythonhtmldoc-download-http;"/></para>
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| 89 | </listitem>
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| 90 | <listitem>
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| 91 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &pythonhtmldoc-md5sum;</para>
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| 92 | </listitem>
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| 93 | <listitem>
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| 94 | <para>Download size: &pythonhtmldoc-size;</para>
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[1970f00] | 95 | </listitem>
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| 96 | </itemizedlist>
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| 97 |
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[83f69e5d] | 98 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Python Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 99 |
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| 100 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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[879d269] | 101 | <para role="optional"><xref linkend="pth"/>,
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| 102 | <xref linkend="gcc"/> (install JAVA for the
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| 103 | <filename class="libraryfile">libffi</filename> library) or
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| 104 | <ulink url="http://sourceware.org/libffi/">libffi</ulink>, and
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| 105 | <ulink url="http://www.bluez.org/">BlueZ</ulink></para>
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[1970f00] | 106 |
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| 107 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional
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| 108 | (to create package-specific support modules)</bridgehead>
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[256ee72c] | 109 | <para role="optional"><xref linkend="openssl"/>,
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[de7f20e] | 110 | <xref linkend="tk"/>,
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| 111 | <xref linkend="db"/>, and
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| 112 | <!-- <xref linkend="gdbm"/>, and -->
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[e2a0e91] | 113 | <xref linkend="sqlite"/></para>
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[83f69e5d] | 114 |
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[ce33273] | 115 | <para>Note that there is a circular dependency with the
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| 116 | <application>Tk</application> package as it requires Xorg to be installed
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| 117 | but parts of Xorg depend on <application>Python</application>.</para>
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| 118 |
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[1039de3] | 119 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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[6c42d4e] | 120 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/Python"/></para>
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[1039de3] | 121 |
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[83f69e5d] | 122 | </sect2>
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| 123 |
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| 124 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 125 | <title>Installation of Python</title>
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| 126 |
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| 127 | <para>Install <application>Python</application> by running the following
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| 128 | commands:</para>
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| 129 |
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[879d269] | 130 | <screen><userinput>sed -i "s/ndbm_libs = \[\]/ndbm_libs = ['gdbm', 'gdbm_compat']/" \
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| 131 | setup.py &&
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[2f83800] | 132 | patch -Np1 -i ../Python-&Python-version;-bdb_4.8-1.patch &&
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[879d269] | 133 |
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[52d29f7] | 134 | ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared &&
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[83f69e5d] | 135 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 136 |
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[1970f00] | 137 | <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make test</command>. Note that
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| 138 | if you have an existing <application>Python</application> installation
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| 139 | which includes the <application>PyXML</application> module, the tests could
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| 140 | produce a segmentation fault.</para>
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[83f69e5d] | 141 |
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| 142 | <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 143 |
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[2f83800] | 144 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install &&
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| 145 | chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0</userinput></screen>
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[83f69e5d] | 146 |
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[1970f00] | 147 | <para>There is no documentation installed using the instructions above.
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[f4031b6c] | 148 | See the <filename>Doc/README.txt</filename> file in the source
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| 149 | distribution for instructions on how to create the html. Alternatively,
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| 150 | you can download preformatted documentation from <ulink
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| 151 | url="http://docs.python.org/download.html"/>.</para>
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[1970f00] | 152 |
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[8cebf004] | 153 | <para>In order to use the <command>help ('name_string')</command> feature
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| 154 | of the <command>python</command> interpreter with some statements and
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| 155 | keywords, you must download (or create) the optional HTML documentation
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| 156 | and install it. If you downloaded the HTML docs, issue the following
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| 157 | commands as the
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[1970f00] | 158 | <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 159 |
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| 160 | <screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/Python-&Python-version;/html &&
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| 161 | tar --strip-components=1 \
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[cff8f9e] | 162 | --no-same-owner \
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| 163 | --no-same-permissions \
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[1970f00] | 164 | -C /usr/share/doc/Python-&Python-version;/html \
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[d7e4082] | 165 | -xvf ../python-&python-majorver;-docs-html.tar.bz2</userinput></screen>
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[1970f00] | 166 |
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[879d269] | 167 | </sect2>
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| 168 |
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| 169 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 170 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 171 |
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| 172 | <para><command>sed -i "s/ndbm_libs = ..." setup.py</command>: This command
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| 173 | is used to fix a build problem with the <application>GDBM</application>
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| 174 | library.</para>
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| 175 |
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| 176 | </sect2>
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| 177 |
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| 178 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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| 179 | <title>Configuring Python</title>
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| 180 |
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[1970f00] | 181 | <para>In order for <command>python</command> to find the installed
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| 182 | documentation, you must add the following environment variable to
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| 183 | individual user's or the system's profile:</para>
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| 184 |
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| 185 | <screen role="root"><userinput>export PYTHONDOCS=/usr/share/doc/Python-&Python-version;/html</userinput></screen>
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[83f69e5d] | 186 |
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| 187 | </sect2>
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| 188 |
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| 189 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 190 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 191 |
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| 192 | <segmentedlist>
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| 193 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 194 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 195 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 196 |
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| 197 | <seglistitem>
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[879d269] | 198 | <seg>2to3, pydoc, python, python-config, python&python-majorver;,
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| 199 | python&python-majorver;-config, smtpd.py, and optionally if
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[83f69e5d] | 200 | <application>Tk</application> is installed, idle</seg>
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[1970f00] | 201 | <seg>libpython&python-majorver;.so and numerous modules installed in
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| 202 | /usr/lib/python&python-majorver;/lib-dynload</seg>
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| 203 | <seg>/usr/include/python&python-majorver;,
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| 204 | /usr/lib/python&python-majorver;, and
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[fe2cf26] | 205 | /usr/share/doc/python-&Python-version;</seg>
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[83f69e5d] | 206 | </seglistitem>
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| 207 | </segmentedlist>
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| 208 |
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| 209 | <variablelist>
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| 210 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 211 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 212 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 213 |
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| 214 | <varlistentry id="idle">
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| 215 | <term><command>idle</command></term>
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| 216 | <listitem>
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[7cd76d62] | 217 | <para>is a wrapper script that opens a
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[83f69e5d] | 218 | <application>Python</application> aware GUI editor.</para>
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| 219 | <indexterm zone="python idle">
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| 220 | <primary sortas="b-idle">idle</primary>
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| 221 | </indexterm>
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| 222 | </listitem>
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| 223 | </varlistentry>
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| 224 |
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| 225 | <varlistentry id="pydoc">
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| 226 | <term><command>pydoc</command></term>
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| 227 | <listitem>
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[7cd76d62] | 228 | <para>is the <application>Python</application> documentation
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[83f69e5d] | 229 | tool.</para>
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| 230 | <indexterm zone="python pydoc">
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| 231 | <primary sortas="b-pydoc">pydoc</primary>
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| 232 | </indexterm>
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| 233 | </listitem>
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| 234 | </varlistentry>
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| 235 |
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| 236 | <varlistentry id="python-prog">
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| 237 | <term><command>python</command></term>
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| 238 | <listitem>
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[7cd76d62] | 239 | <para>is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
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[83f69e5d] | 240 | language.</para>
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| 241 | <indexterm zone="python python-prog">
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| 242 | <primary sortas="b-python">python</primary>
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| 243 | </indexterm>
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| 244 | </listitem>
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| 245 | </varlistentry>
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| 246 |
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[f67f5387] | 247 | <varlistentry id="python-ver">
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[1970f00] | 248 | <term><command>python&python-majorver;</command></term>
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[83f69e5d] | 249 | <listitem>
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[0619e6d] | 250 | <para>is a version-specific name for the <command>python</command>
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[83f69e5d] | 251 | program.</para>
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[f67f5387] | 252 | <indexterm zone="python python-ver">
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[1970f00] | 253 | <primary sortas="b-python&python-majorver;">python&python-majorver;</primary>
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[83f69e5d] | 254 | </indexterm>
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| 255 | </listitem>
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| 256 | </varlistentry>
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| 257 |
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| 258 | <varlistentry id="smtpd.py">
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| 259 | <term><command>smtpd.py</command></term>
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| 260 | <listitem>
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[7cd76d62] | 261 | <para>is an SMTP proxy implemented in
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[83f69e5d] | 262 | <application>Python</application>.</para>
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| 263 | <indexterm zone="python smtpd.py">
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| 264 | <primary sortas="b-smtpd.py">smtpd.py</primary>
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| 265 | </indexterm>
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| 266 | </listitem>
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| 267 | </varlistentry>
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| 268 |
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| 269 | </variablelist>
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| 270 |
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| 271 | </sect2>
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[f45b1953] | 272 |
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| 273 | </sect1>
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