Python 2 for Debian?

Alexander V. Voinov avv at quasar.ipa.nw.ru
Tue Feb 27 16:02:30 EST 2001


Hi

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> 
> On 27-Feb-2001 David Given wrote:
> > Subject says it all, really. Does anyone know when Python 2 is coming out
> > for Debian? All I can find on my local mirror is 1.5.
> >
> 
> apt-get install python2-base.  It lives in unstable and testing.
> 
> Until the licensing gets straightened out, most python modules are not being
> recompiled under Debian for python2.  So you can play with the language, but
> some of the useful things are missing.

Why not to put them into [non-free]? Who would mind?

Alexander



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