On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 5:56 AM, giacomo boffi <pec...@pascolo.net> wrote: > Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > >> For ubuntu you should need nothing for python. >> In other words python should run on a basic ubuntu installation. >> From the shell just type python and the interpreter should start. >> >> For more specialized work there are dozens (maybe hundreds?) of >> packages in the apt repos. > > % apt-cache show python<TAB><TAB> > Display all 2776 possibilities? (y or n)
Not quite fair, as some of those exist in multiple forms (python-* and python3-*, or -dbg and -dev as well as the base package, or the package-and-subpackage model of large stuff like python-django-*), and on Debian Wheezy I have only (only!) 1890. But yep, that is a lot of packages available in apt. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
