[Tutor] Find a good linux distribution with python.

[Dave Crouse]

It's not a newbie distro by any means, but i am very fond of Arch Linux.
It has 3 versions of python available. Currently,

python24 2.4.6-1
python 2.6.2-1
python3 3.0.1-1

are all very simple to install in Arch. I have 2.6 and 3.0 both installed.

[crouse at Veronica ~]$ python --version
Python 2.6.2
[crouse at Veronica ~]$ python3 --version
Python 3.0.1
[crouse at Veronica ~]$

installing python3 is as simple as :  pacman -S python3

Once configured and setup, Arch provides an awesome platform for python.
I am a bit biased though :)   ymmv








On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:22 AM, W W <srilyk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Michael Bernhard Arp Sørensen
> <michael at arpsorensen.dk> wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>> I just wished that Python was upgraded in the distros. If I want to play
>> with Python3, I will need to compile it my self and specify which Python
>> interpretor to use in each Python file. But this is a small problem. <snip>
>
> In Ubuntu Jaunty(?)- 8.11 I believe- you can apt-get the python3 package (or
> whatever you use). I think there's also a python 2.6 package and the default
> is python 2.5.
>
> I'm assuming you use terminal, and if so you can setup aliases in your
> .bashrc to go into whatever "mode" you want. Just add these lines to your
> .bashrc
>
> alias pymode3='alias python="python3"'
> alias pymode1.6='alias python="python1.6"'
>
> I forget if/how to change ipython between versions of python though. You'd
> just have to put similar aliases in your bash file.
>
> HTH,
> Wayne
>
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