python2.2

[Gerhard Häring]

Dave Kuhlman wrote in comp.lang.python:
> The testing version is woody.  So change "stable" to "woody" in 
> your sources.list.  (Perhaps you could instead change "stable" to 
> "testing", but I'm not sure about that one.)

This would update the entire distribution to woody the next time a
"apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" is issued. This may not be the
desired effect.

> Not to distract you, but ... If you have gcc on your system,
> downloading, building, and installing the source is very straight
> forward. [...]

Indeed, building Python yourself has great benefit. One argument for
using Debian packages, however, is that you can access lots of useful
packaged Python libraries that have already been debianized:

gerhard at lilith:~$ apt-cache pkgnames|grep python|wc -l
    255

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