https support in Python?

[Olaf Trygve Berglihn]

Dustin Boswell <boswell at caltech.edu> writes:

> I noticed that although python 1.6 and up are claimed to support code
> like:
> urllib.urlopen("https://secure-server.com")
> the Modules/Setup file (in the source distribution for Python) has the
> SSL
> part commented out since it "breaks" the Python build.  It sure does.
> ;-)
> 
> I've tried downloading and installing various openssl, ssleay, and other
> packages
> but it always complains one way or another during build.  And it seems
> that
> there are a lot of hacks, but no official Python releases.
> My question is, what is the "standard" way (what packages, etc...) to
> get my
> python interpreter built so I can do urlopen("https://")?
> 
> Any links to good packages (third party ok) would be great help.

You can try my (unofficial) build of python 2.0 found at:
<URI: http://www.pvv.org/~olafb/software/python/ >

Try rebuilding the srpm on your redhat. The binary rpms were build on
a Trustix Secure Linux v1.2 and link against openssl-0.9.6. I guess
rh-6.2 uses openssl-0.9.5a. It should work with the older openssl.
The Tkinter module is left out in this build.

Olaf
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Olaf Trygve Berglihn <olafb+usenet at pvv.org>