Which linux distros have Python by default?

Grant Edwards ge at nowhere.none
Wed Jun 14 17:34:51 EDT 2000


In article <Pine.GSO.4.10.10006142334560.3119-100000 at sundial>, Moshe Zadka wrote:
>On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> I'm going to distribute a utility written in Python/Tkinter as
>> a configuration/administration utility that goes with a Linux
>> device driver.  I was just wondering how many customers are
>> likely to have Python/Tkinter available.  I doubt that anybody
>> is going to install Python just to run this program.
>
>Pretty soon, everyone will want to have Python to use ESR's CLM2, a
>configuration utility for the the kernel written in Python/Curses. 
>Tkinter is a different matter though

Well, people who compile kernels will, anyway.  There are
getting to be a lot of users who never do a kernel build...

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