Python 2 for Debian?

Tue Feb 27 14:11:38 EST 2001

On 27-Feb-2001 David Given wrote:
> Subject says it all, really. Does anyone know when Python 2 is coming out
> for Debian? All I can find on my local mirror is 1.5.
> 

apt-get install python2-base.  It lives in unstable and testing.

Until the licensing gets straightened out, most python modules are not being
recompiled under Debian for python2.  So you can play with the language, but
some of the useful things are missing.