%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Python The Python package contains the Python development environment. This is useful for object-oriented programming, writing scripts, prototyping large programs or developing entire applications. Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &python-md5sum; Download size: &python-size; Estimated disk space required: &python-buildsize; Estimated build time: &python-time; Additional Downloads Required Patch Optional HTML Documentation Python Dependencies Optional Optional (to create package-specific support modules) , , , and SQLite 3 User Notes: Install Python by running the following commands: patch -Np1 -i ../Python-&Python-version;-gdbm-1.patch && ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared && make To test the results, issue: make test. Note that if you have an existing Python installation which includes the PyXML module, the tests could produce a segmentation fault. Now, as the root user: make install There is no documentation installed using the instructions above. However, There are LaTeX sources included with the distribution. See the Doc/README file in the source distribution for instructions to format the LaTeX sources. Alternatively, you can download preformatted documentation from . In order to use the help ('module_name') feature of the python interpreter, you must download (or create) the optional HTML documentation and install it. If you downloaded the HTML docs, issue the following commands as the root user: install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/Python-&Python-version;/html && tar --strip-components=1 \ --no-same-owner \ --no-same-permissions \ -C /usr/share/doc/Python-&Python-version;/html \ -xvf ../html-&python-majorver;.tar.bz2 In order for python to find the installed documentation, you must add the following environment variable to individual user's or the system's profile: export PYTHONDOCS=/usr/share/doc/Python-&Python-version;/html Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories pydoc, python, python&python-majorver;, smtpd.py, and optionally if Tk is installed, idle libpython&python-majorver;.so and numerous modules installed in /usr/lib/python&python-majorver;/lib-dynload /usr/include/python&python-majorver;, /usr/lib/python&python-majorver;, and /usr/share/doc/python-&Python-version; Short Descriptions idle is a wrapper script that opens a Python aware GUI editor. idle pydoc is the Python documentation tool. pydoc python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. python python&python-majorver; is a version-specific name for the python program. python&python-majorver; smtpd.py is an SMTP proxy implemented in Python. smtpd.py