Programming

An LFS is a development system, but only for C, C++ and Perl. This chapter expands the languages available.

Python-2.3.3

Introduction to Python

The Python package contains the Python development environment. This is useful for object-oriented programming, writing scripts, prototyping large programs or developing them entirely.

Package information

Download (HTTP): http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.3.3/Python-2.3.3.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/2.3.3/Python-2.3.3.tar.bz2
Download size: 6.9 MB
Estimated Disk space required: 69 MB
Estimated build time: 1.25 SBU

Additional downloads

Required patch (HTTP): http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/5.1/Python-2.3.3-gdbm-2.patch

Python dependencies

Optional

expat-1.95.7, Tk-8.4.6, GDBM-1.8.3, Berkeley DB-4.2.52.2, GMP-4.1.3 and readline-4.3

Installation of Python

Install Python by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../Python-2.3.3-gdbm-2.patch &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared &&
make &&
make install

The Python package contains python and pydoc.

Description

python

python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.

pydoc

pydoc is the Python documentation tool.