[Tutor] what is the easiest way to install different Python versions?
Joel Goldstick
joel.goldstick at gmail.com
Sun Oct 12 15:15:28 CEST 2014
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam
<fomcl at yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid> wrote:
> Hi,
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> (sorry for cross-posting, sort of)
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> A few days ago I needed to check whether some Python code ran with Python 2.6. What is the easiest way to install another Python version along side the default Python version? My own computer is Debian Linux 64 bit, but a platform-independent solution would be best.
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> Possible solutions that I am aware of
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> -make altinstall *). This is what I tried (see below), but not all modules could be built. I gave up because I was in a hurry
> -Pythonbrew. This project is dead
> -Deadsnakes
> -Anaconda
> -Tox? I only know this is as a cross-version/implementation test runner
> -Vagrant. This is what I eventually did, and this was very simple. I ran Ubuntu 10.0.4 LTS, which uses Python 2.6, and used Vagrant SSH to run and check my code in Python 2.6 (and I replaced a dict comprehension with a list comprehension, for example)
> - ...
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> What is the recommended way? I don't expect/hope that I'd ever need something lower than Python 2.5
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>
Using virtualenvwrapper is easy and isolates your environment
http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html
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> Thank you.
>
> Albert-Jan
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> *) Make altinstall
> sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev libbz2-dev libgdbm-dev libncurses5-dev tk-dev zlib1g-dev
> wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.8/Python-2.6.8.tgz
> tar -zxvf Python-2.6.8.tgz
> cd Python-2.6.8/
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
> make # see 'failed stuff' below
> sudo make altinstall
> mkvirtualenv -p /usr/local/bin/python2.6 python26 # ImportError: No module named zlib
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> # Failed stuff
> Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules:
> _bsddb _curses _curses_panel
> _hashlib _sqlite3 _ssl
> bsddb185 bz2 dbm
> dl gdbm imageop
> linuxaudiodev ossaudiodev readline
> sunaudiodev zlib
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