Installation of python on my workspace.

[zondo42 at googlemail.com]

pyguru at gmail.com wrote:
> I had two questions. I am new to Unix and Python. I wanted to get
> python installed on my unix terminal without too much interference from
> the administrator. How can I do this?

If you have the Python sources, you can configure it to install where
you tell it using the
--prefix option.  E.g. ./configure --prefix=$(HOME) will install it in
your login dir, so you'd run python using $(HOME)/bin/python.  No
sysadmin required.

Glenn