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  <!ENTITY python-md5sum        "afb5451049eda91fbde10bd5a4b7fadc">
  <!ENTITY python-size          "9.8 MB">
  <!ENTITY python-buildsize     "180 MB">
  <!ENTITY python-time          "1.1 SBU (additional 2.7 SBU to run the test suite)">
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<sect1 id="python" xreflabel="Python-&Python-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="python.html" ?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Python-&Python-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="python">
    <primary sortas="a-Python">Python</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Python</title>

    <para>The <application>Python</application> package contains the
    <application>Python</application> development environment.
    This is useful for object-oriented programming, writing scripts,
    prototyping large programs or developing entire applications.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&python-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&python-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &python-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &python-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &python-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &python-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required Patch</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink
        url="&patch-root;/Python-&Python-version;-gdbm-1.patch"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional HTML Documentation</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink
        url="http://docs.python.org/ftp/python/doc/&python-majorver;/html-&python-majorver;.tar.bz2"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Python Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="pth"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional
    (to create package-specific support modules)</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="openssl"/>,
    <xref linkend="tk"/>,
    <xref linkend="gdbm"/>, and
    <ulink url="http://sqlite.org/">SQLite 3</ulink></para>
    <!-- <xref linkend="db"/> -->

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/Python"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Python</title>

    <para>Install <application>Python</application> by running the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../Python-&Python-version;-gdbm-1.patch &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make test</command>. Note that
    if you have an existing <application>Python</application> installation
    which includes the <application>PyXML</application> module, the tests could
    produce a segmentation fault.</para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    <para>There is no documentation installed using the instructions above.
    However, There are LaTeX sources included with the distribution. See the
    <filename>Doc/README</filename> file in the source distribution for
    instructions to format the LaTeX sources. Alternatively, you can download
    preformatted documentation from
    <ulink url="http://docs.python.org/download.html"/>.</para>

    <para>In order to use the <command>help ('name_string')</command> feature
    of the <command>python</command> interpreter with some statements and
    keywords, you must download (or create) the optional HTML documentation
    and install it. If you downloaded the HTML docs, issue the following
    commands as the
    <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/Python-&Python-version;/html &amp;&amp;
tar --strip-components=1 \
    --no-same-owner \
    --no-same-permissions \
    -C /usr/share/doc/Python-&Python-version;/html \
    -xvf ../html-&python-majorver;.tar.bz2</userinput></screen>

    <para>In order for <command>python</command> to find the installed
    documentation, you must add the following environment variable to
    individual user's or the system's profile:</para>

    <screen role="root"><userinput>export PYTHONDOCS=/usr/share/doc/Python-&Python-version;/html</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>pydoc, python, python&python-majorver;, smtpd.py, and optionally if
        <application>Tk</application> is installed, idle</seg>
        <seg>libpython&python-majorver;.so and numerous modules installed in
        /usr/lib/python&python-majorver;/lib-dynload</seg>
        <seg>/usr/include/python&python-majorver;,
        /usr/lib/python&python-majorver;, and
        /usr/share/doc/python-&Python-version;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="idle">
        <term><command>idle</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a wrapper script that opens a
          <application>Python</application> aware GUI editor.</para>
          <indexterm zone="python idle">
            <primary sortas="b-idle">idle</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pydoc">
        <term><command>pydoc</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is the <application>Python</application> documentation
          tool.</para>
          <indexterm zone="python pydoc">
            <primary sortas="b-pydoc">pydoc</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="python-prog">
        <term><command>python</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
          language.</para>
          <indexterm zone="python python-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-python">python</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="python-ver">
        <term><command>python&python-majorver;</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a version-specific name for the <command>python</command>
          program.</para>
          <indexterm zone="python python-ver">
            <primary sortas="b-python&python-majorver;">python&python-majorver;</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="smtpd.py">
        <term><command>smtpd.py</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is an SMTP proxy implemented in
          <application>Python</application>.</para>
          <indexterm zone="python smtpd.py">
            <primary sortas="b-smtpd.py">smtpd.py</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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