CentOS 5.5 is dependant on Python 2.4. Everything will break if you change it, so we must install a newer version of Python in a different place.
Surprisingly my 1&1 CentOS didn't come with gcc installed so I had to install it myself.
yum -y i… more »
Tag: "python"
Download and install Eclipse
Even though you will be developing Python you will still need Eclipse with the Java SDK. I think this is for 2 reasons. Firstly Python support for Eclipse is in the form of an Eclipse plug-in as opposed to a fully… more »
With all projects we must create an area to place our sources so that we both have a frame of reference.
mkdir c:\python-modules
Next we must download the sources we need. First up is Python itself. Navigate to: http://www.python.org/download/ Download… more »
Python 2.7 (final) was released on 3rd July 2010, which is almost half a year ago. One of the awful things about Python is that major releases are not compatible with each other. That is the extension modules compiled against Python 2.6 do not play nicel… more »