Actually came back with some feedback to my own question. The following repositories do the job:
# /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib $ apt-get update $ apt-get install python2.7 $ python --version Python 2.6.6 $ python2.7 --version Python 2.7.1+ If you need 2.7 as default runtime: $ update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python2.7 10 This is the first time I need two Python instances, so might helpful for someone in the same position. Any further help feel free to reply. Cheers. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Jorge Romero <jorgeromero...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi all, > > My machine is running Debian Squeeze so my default Python runtime is 2.6.6. > > According to Python docs *optparse* library is deprecated and the > development will be moved to *argparse*, which is new in Python 2.7.1. So > now that I'm about to write a script that parse command line arguments > thought would be a good idea to do the transition right now, besides the > good comments about this version. > > I tried Googling about Python 2.7 on Debian Squeeze, but did not find > anything but discussions -.-. Anyone out there that can point me some > helpful material or anyone who had luck running 2.7 on Debian? > > Thanks in advanced. > > -- > Jorge Romero > > -- Jorge Romero
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