%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Python The Python 2 package contains the Python development environment. This is useful for object-oriented programming, writing scripts, prototyping large programs or developing entire applications. This version is for backward compatibility with other dependent packages. &lfs70_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &python2-md5sum; Download size: &python2-size; Estimated disk space required: &python2-buildsize; Estimated build time: &python2-time; Additional Downloads Download (HTTP): Download MD5 sum: &python2htmldoc-md5sum; Download size: &python2htmldoc-size; Python Dependencies Optional , or (install JAVA so that the libffi library is built), and BlueZ Optional (to create package-specific support modules) , , , and Note that there is a circular dependency with the Tk package as it requires Xorg to be installed but parts of Xorg depend on Python. User Notes: Install Python by running the following commands: sed -i "s/ndbm_libs = \[\]/ndbm_libs = ['gdbm', 'gdbm_compat']/" setup.py && ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared && make To test the results, issue: make test. Note that if you have an existing Python 2 installation which includes the PyXML module, the tests could produce a segmentation fault. Now, as the root user: make install && chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython&python2-majorver;.so.1.0 There is no documentation installed using the instructions above. See the Doc/README.txt file in the source distribution for instructions on how to create the html. Alternatively, you can download preformatted documentation from . In order to use the help ('name_string') feature of the python 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 root user: install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/Python-&python2-version;/html && tar --strip-components=1 \ --no-same-owner \ --no-same-permissions \ -C /usr/share/doc/Python-&python2-version;/html \ -xvf ../python-&python2-version;-docs-html.tar.bz2 sed -i "s/ndbm_libs = ..." setup.py: This command is used to fix a build problem with the GDBM library. chmod ...: Fix permissions for libraries to be consistent with other libraries. 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-&python2-version;/html Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories pydoc, python, python-config, python&python2-majorver;, python&python2-majorver;-config, smtpd.py, and optionally if Tk is installed, idle libpython&python2-majorver;.so and numerous modules installed in /usr/lib/python&python2-majorver;/lib-dynload /usr/include/python&python2-majorver;, /usr/lib/python&python2-majorver;, and /usr/share/doc/python-&python2-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&python2-majorver; is a version-specific name for the python program. python&python2-majorver; smtpd.py is an SMTP proxy implemented in Python. smtpd.py