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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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[181662f] | 7 | <!ENTITY python2-download-http
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[82fac2c] | 8 | "http://www.python.org/ftp/python/&python2-version;/Python-&python2-version;.tar.xz">
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[27d9434] | 9 | <!ENTITY python2-download-ftp " ">
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[d80de44] | 10 | <!ENTITY python2-md5sum "d235bdfa75b8396942e360a70487ee00">
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[167a240] | 11 | <!ENTITY python2-size "11 MB">
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[d80de44] | 12 | <!ENTITY python2-buildsize "222 MB (additional 18 MB for the tests)">
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| 13 | <!ENTITY python2-time "1.0 SBU (additional 4.8 SBU for tests)">
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[82fac2c] | 14 |
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[181662f] | 15 | <!ENTITY python2htmldoc-download-http
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[82fac2c] | 16 | "http://docs.python.org/ftp/python/doc/&python2-version;/python-&python2-version;-docs-html.tar.bz2">
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[d80de44] | 17 | <!ENTITY python2htmldoc-md5sum "2cf9ba96b2723a5268cd14432b15fdcf">
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| 18 | <!ENTITY python2htmldoc-size "4.4 MB">
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[bf847d6d] | 19 | ]>
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| 20 |
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[4716d52] | 21 | <sect1 id="python2" xreflabel="Python-&python2-version;">
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[bf847d6d] | 22 | <?dbhtml filename="python2.html" ?>
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| 23 |
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| 24 | <sect1info>
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[4949485e] | 25 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 26 | <date>$Date$</date>
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[bf847d6d] | 27 | </sect1info>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <title>Python-&python2-version;</title>
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| 30 |
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[4716d52] | 31 | <indexterm zone="python2">
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[82fac2c] | 32 | <primary sortas="a-Python2">Python2</primary>
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[bf847d6d] | 33 | </indexterm>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 36 | <title>Introduction to Python 2</title>
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| 37 |
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[181662f] | 38 | <para>
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| 39 | The <application>Python 2</application> package contains the
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[82fac2c] | 40 | <application>Python</application> development environment. It is useful
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[181662f] | 41 | for object-oriented programming, writing scripts, prototyping large
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| 42 | programs or developing entire applications. This version is for backward
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| 43 | compatibility with other dependent packages.
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| 44 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 45 |
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[a0111a9] | 46 | &lfs75_checked;
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[bf847d6d] | 47 |
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| 48 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 49 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 50 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 51 | <para>
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| 52 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&python2-download-http;"/>
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| 53 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 54 | </listitem>
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| 55 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 56 | <para>
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| 57 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&python2-download-ftp;"/>
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| 58 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 59 | </listitem>
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| 60 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 61 | <para>
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| 62 | Download MD5 sum: &python2-md5sum;
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| 63 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 64 | </listitem>
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| 65 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 66 | <para>
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| 67 | Download size: &python2-size;
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| 68 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 69 | </listitem>
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| 70 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 71 | <para>
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| 72 | Estimated disk space required: &python2-buildsize;
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| 73 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 74 | </listitem>
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| 75 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 76 | <para>
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| 77 | Estimated build time: &python2-time;
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| 78 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 79 | </listitem>
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| 80 | </itemizedlist>
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| 81 |
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| 82 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
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| 83 |
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[4716d52] | 84 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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[bf847d6d] | 85 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 86 | <para>
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[167a240] | 87 | Required patch if you wish to run the test suite:
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| 88 | <ulink url="&patch-root;/Python-&python2-version;-skip_test_gdb-1.patch"/>
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[181662f] | 89 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 90 | </listitem>
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[5d11f8f] | 91 | </itemizedlist>
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| 92 |
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| 93 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 94 | <title>Optional HTML Documentation</title>
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[bf847d6d] | 95 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 96 | <para>
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[5d11f8f] | 97 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&python2htmldoc-download-http;"/>
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[181662f] | 98 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 99 | </listitem>
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| 100 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 101 | <para>
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[5d11f8f] | 102 | Download MD5 sum: &python2htmldoc-md5sum;
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[181662f] | 103 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 104 | </listitem>
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[fb990982] | 105 | <listitem>
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| 106 | <para>
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[5d11f8f] | 107 | Download size: &python2htmldoc-size;
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[fb990982] | 108 | </para>
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| 109 | </listitem>
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| 110 | </itemizedlist>
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| 111 |
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[03d30cf] | 112 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Python 2 Dependencies</bridgehead>
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[bf847d6d] | 113 |
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[82fac2c] | 114 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
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| 115 | <para role="recommended">
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[adf6dd9a] | 116 | <xref linkend="libffi"/>
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[82fac2c] | 117 | </para>
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| 118 |
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[bf847d6d] | 119 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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[181662f] | 120 | <para role="optional">
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[03d30cf] | 121 | <xref linkend="bluez"/>
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[82fac2c] | 122 | </para>
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| 123 |
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| 124 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (For Additional Modules)</bridgehead>
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| 125 | <para role="optional">
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| 126 | <xref linkend="db"/>,
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[181662f] | 127 | <xref linkend="openssl"/>,
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[82fac2c] | 128 | <xref linkend="sqlite"/> and
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| 129 | <xref linkend="tk"/>
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[181662f] | 130 | </para>
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| 131 |
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[c2c16c99] | 132 | <note>
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| 133 | <para>
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| 134 | <!-- new for ff31. Any reasonable version of openssl will do,
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| 135 | even old maintained versions, so do not xref openssl here -->
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[99d528c] | 136 | If you are building <xref linkend="thunderbird"/>,
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| 137 | <xref linkend="firefox"/> or <xref linkend="xulrunner"/>,
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| 138 | you must install <application>openssl</application> before you build
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[c2c16c99] | 139 | <application>Python 2</application>.
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| 140 | </para>
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| 141 | </note>
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| 142 |
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[181662f] | 143 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
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| 144 | User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/Python"/>
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| 145 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 146 | </sect2>
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| 147 |
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| 148 | <sect2 role="installation">
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[03d30cf] | 149 | <title>Installation of Python 2</title>
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[bf847d6d] | 150 |
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[181662f] | 151 | <para>
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[03d30cf] | 152 | Install <application>Python 2</application> by running the following
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[181662f] | 153 | commands:
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| 154 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 155 |
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[167a240] | 156 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
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[82fac2c] | 157 | --enable-shared \
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| 158 | --with-system-expat \
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| 159 | --with-system-ffi \
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| 160 | --enable-unicode=ucs4 &&
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[bf847d6d] | 161 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 162 |
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[167a240] | 163 | <para>
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| 164 | If you wish to run the test suite, disable a test that fails:
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| 165 | </para>
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| 166 |
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| 167 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../Python-&python2-version;-skip_test_gdb-1.patch</userinput></screen>
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| 168 |
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[181662f] | 169 | <para>
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| 170 | To test the results, issue: <command>make test</command>.
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| 171 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 172 |
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[181662f] | 173 | <para>
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| 174 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 175 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 176 |
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[7224506] | 177 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install &&
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| 178 | chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython&python2-majorver;.so.1.0</userinput></screen>
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[bf847d6d] | 179 |
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[181662f] | 180 | <para>
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[7fe0ce3b] | 181 | Since <application>Python 2</application> is in maintenance mode, and
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| 182 | <application>Python 3</application> is recommended by upstream for
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| 183 | development, probably, you do not need to install the documentation.
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| 184 | However, if you still want to install documentation for both
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| 185 | <application>Python</application> versions, be sure to define PYTHONDOCS
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| 186 | variable for the version you want to use, each time you need to consult
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| 187 | the documentation. If you have downloaded the preformatted documentation
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| 188 | from <ulink url="http://docs.python.org/download.html"/>, install it
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[03d30cf] | 189 | as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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[181662f] | 190 | </para>
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| 191 |
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[23d3543c] | 192 | <screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/python-&python2-version; &&
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[03d30cf] | 193 | tar --strip-components=1 -C /usr/share/doc/python-&python2-version; \
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[ff3093a7] | 194 | --no-same-owner -xvf ../python-&python2-version;-docs-html.tar.bz2 &&
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[03d30cf] | 195 | find /usr/share/doc/python-&python2-version; -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \; &&
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| 196 | find /usr/share/doc/python-&python2-version; -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \;</userinput></screen>
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[bf847d6d] | 197 | </sect2>
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| 198 |
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| 199 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 200 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 201 |
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[82fac2c] | 202 | <para>
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| 203 | <option>--with-system-expat</option>: This switch enables linking against
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[56605b9] | 204 | system version of <application>Expat</application>.
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[82fac2c] | 205 | </para>
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| 206 |
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| 207 | <para>
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| 208 | <option>--with-system-ffi</option>: This switch enables linking against
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| 209 | system version of <application>libffi</application>. Remove if you have
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[03d30cf] | 210 | not installed <xref linkend="libffi"/>.
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[82fac2c] | 211 | </para>
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| 212 |
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| 213 | <para>
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| 214 | <parameter>--enable-unicode=ucs4</parameter>: This switch enables
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| 215 | 32bit Unicode support in <application>Python</application>.
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| 216 | </para>
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| 217 |
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| 218 | <para>
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| 219 | <parameter>--with-dbmliborder=bdb:gdbm:ndbm</parameter>: Use this switch
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[0d7900a] | 220 | if you want to build <application>Python</application> DBM Module
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[82fac2c] | 221 | against <application>Berkeley DB</application> instead of
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| 222 | <application>GDBM</application>.
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| 223 | </para>
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| 224 |
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[181662f] | 225 | <para>
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[0d7900a] | 226 | <command>chmod ...</command>: Fix permissions for libraries to be
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[181662f] | 227 | consistent with other libraries.
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| 228 | </para>
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[82fac2c] | 229 |
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[bf847d6d] | 230 | </sect2>
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| 231 |
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| 232 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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| 233 | <title>Configuring Python 2</title>
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| 234 |
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[181662f] | 235 | <para>
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| 236 | In order for <command>python</command> to find the installed
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| 237 | documentation, you must add the following environment variable to
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| 238 | individual user's or the system's profile:
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| 239 | </para>
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[bf847d6d] | 240 |
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[03d30cf] | 241 | <screen role="root"><userinput>export PYTHONDOCS=/usr/share/doc/python-&python2-version;</userinput></screen>
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[82fac2c] | 242 |
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[bf847d6d] | 243 | </sect2>
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| 244 |
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| 245 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 246 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 247 |
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| 248 | <segmentedlist>
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| 249 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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[03d30cf] | 250 | <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
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[bf847d6d] | 251 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 252 |
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| 253 | <seglistitem>
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[181662f] | 254 | <seg>
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[167a240] | 255 | 2to3, pydoc, python (symlink), python-config (symlink),
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| 256 | python2 (symlink), python2-config (symlink),
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[03d30cf] | 257 | python&python2-majorver;, python&python2-majorver;-config,
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| 258 | smtpd.py, and optionally if <application>Tk</application>
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| 259 | is installed, idle
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[181662f] | 260 | </seg>
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| 261 | <seg>
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[03d30cf] | 262 | libpython&python2-majorver;.so
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[167a240] | 263 | and several under /usr/lib/python2.7/{config,lib-dynload}
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[181662f] | 264 | </seg>
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| 265 | <seg>
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| 266 | /usr/include/python&python2-majorver;,
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| 267 | /usr/lib/python&python2-majorver;, and
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| 268 | /usr/share/doc/python-&python2-version;</seg>
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[bf847d6d] | 269 | </seglistitem>
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| 270 | </segmentedlist>
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| 271 |
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| 272 | <variablelist>
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| 273 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 274 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 275 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 276 |
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[62f9a8e] | 277 | <varlistentry id="python2-2to3">
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| 278 | <term><command>2to3</command></term>
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| 279 | <listitem>
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| 280 | <para>
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| 281 | is a <application>Python</application> program that reads
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| 282 | <application>Python 2.x</application> source code and applies a series of
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| 283 | fixers to transform it into valid <application>Python 3.x</application>
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| 284 | code.
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| 285 | </para>
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| 286 | <indexterm zone="python2 python2-2to3">
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| 287 | <primary sortas="b-2to3">2to3</primary>
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| 288 | </indexterm>
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| 289 | </listitem>
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| 290 | </varlistentry>
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| 291 |
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[03d30cf] | 292 | <varlistentry id="idle">
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[bf847d6d] | 293 | <term><command>idle</command></term>
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| 294 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 295 | <para>
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| 296 | is a wrapper script that opens a <application>Python</application>
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| 297 | aware GUI editor.
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| 298 | </para>
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[03d30cf] | 299 | <indexterm zone="python2 idle">
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| 300 | <primary sortas="b-idle">idle</primary>
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[bf847d6d] | 301 | </indexterm>
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| 302 | </listitem>
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| 303 | </varlistentry>
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| 304 |
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| 305 | <varlistentry id="pydoc2">
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| 306 | <term><command>pydoc</command></term>
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| 307 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 308 | <para>
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| 309 | is the <application>Python</application> documentation tool.
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| 310 | </para>
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[4716d52] | 311 | <indexterm zone="python2 pydoc2">
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[bf847d6d] | 312 | <primary sortas="b-pydoc2">pydoc</primary>
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| 313 | </indexterm>
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| 314 | </listitem>
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| 315 | </varlistentry>
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| 316 |
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[181662f] | 317 | <varlistentry id="python">
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[bf847d6d] | 318 | <term><command>python</command></term>
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| 319 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 320 | <para>
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| 321 | is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
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| 322 | language.
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| 323 | </para>
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| 324 | <indexterm zone="python2 python">
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[4716d52] | 325 | <primary sortas="b-python2">python</primary>
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[bf847d6d] | 326 | </indexterm>
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| 327 | </listitem>
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| 328 | </varlistentry>
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| 329 |
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| 330 | <varlistentry id="python2-ver">
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| 331 | <term><command>python&python2-majorver;</command></term>
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| 332 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 333 | <para>
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| 334 | is a version-specific name for the <command>python</command>
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| 335 | program.
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| 336 | </para>
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[4716d52] | 337 | <indexterm zone="python2 python2-ver">
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[b88be39] | 338 | <primary sortas="b-python&python2-majorver;">python&python2-majorver;</primary>
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[bf847d6d] | 339 | </indexterm>
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| 340 | </listitem>
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| 341 | </varlistentry>
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| 342 |
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[03d30cf] | 343 | <varlistentry id="smtpd.py">
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[bf847d6d] | 344 | <term><command>smtpd.py</command></term>
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| 345 | <listitem>
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[181662f] | 346 | <para>
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| 347 | is an SMTP proxy implemented in <application>Python</application>.
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| 348 | </para>
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[03d30cf] | 349 | <indexterm zone="python2 smtpd.py">
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| 350 | <primary sortas="b-smtpd.py">smtpd.py</primary>
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[bf847d6d] | 351 | </indexterm>
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| 352 | </listitem>
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| 353 | </varlistentry>
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[82fac2c] | 354 |
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[bf847d6d] | 355 | </variablelist>
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[82fac2c] | 356 |
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[bf847d6d] | 357 | </sect2>
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[82fac2c] | 358 |
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[bf847d6d] | 359 | </sect1>
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