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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
- "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
- <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
- %general-entities;
-]>
-
-<sect1 id="ch-system-Python" role="wrap">
- <?dbhtml filename="Python.html"?>
-
- <sect1info condition="script">
- <productname>Python</productname>
- <productnumber>&python-version;</productnumber>
- <address>&python-url;</address>
- </sect1info>
-
- <title>Python-&python-version;</title>
-
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-Python">
- <primary sortas="a-python">python</primary>
- </indexterm>
-
- <sect2 role="package">
- <title/>
-
- <para>The Python 3 package contains the Python development environment. It
- is useful for object-oriented programming, writing scripts, prototyping
- large programs or developing entire applications.</para>
-
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
- <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
-
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>&python-ch6-sbu;</seg>
- <seg>&python-ch6-du;</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 role="installation">
- <title>Installation of Python 3</title>
-
- <para>Prepare Python for compilation:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr \
- --enable-shared \
- --with-system-expat \
- --with-system-ffi \
- --with-ensurepip=yes</userinput></screen>
-
- <variablelist>
- <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>--with-system-expat</parameter></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>This switch enables linking against system version of
- <application>Expat</application>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>--with-system-ffi</parameter></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>This switch enables linking against system version of
- <application>libffi</application>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>--with-ensurepip=yes</parameter></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>This switch enables building <command>pip</command> and
- <command>setuptools</command> packaging programs.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
-
- <para>Compile the package:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>To test the results, issue <command>make test</command>.
- Some tests requiring network connection or additional packages are
- skipped. The test named test_normalization fails because network
- configuration is not completed yet. For more comprehensive results,
- the test can be rerun when Python 3 is reinstalled in BLFS.</para>
-
- <para>Install the package:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="install">make install
-chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython&python-minor;.so
-chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython3.so
-ln -sfv pip&python-minor; /usr/bin/pip3</userinput></screen>
-
- <variablelist>
- <title>The meaning of the install commands:</title>
-<!-- ====== Change 8m if Python minor version changes ======= -->
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython3.{8.,}so</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Fix permissions for libraries to be consistent with other
- libraries.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
-
- <para>If desired, install the preformatted documentation:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="install">install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/python-&python-version;/html
-
-tar --strip-components=1 \
- --no-same-owner \
- --no-same-permissions \
- -C /usr/share/doc/python-&python-version;/html \
- -xvf ../python-&python-version;-docs-html.tar.bz2</userinput></screen>
-
- <variablelist>
- <title>The meaning of the documentation install commands:</title>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--no-same-owner</option> and <option>--no-same-permissions</option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Ensure the installed files have the correct ownership and
- permissions. Without these options, using <application>tar</application>
- will install the package files with the upstream creator's values.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="contents-python" role="content">
- <title>Contents of Python 3</title>
-
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
- <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
- <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
-
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>
- 2to3, idle3, pip3, pydoc3, python3, and python3-config
- </seg>
- <seg>
- libpython&python-minor;.so and libpython3.so
- </seg>
- <seg>
- /usr/include/python&python-minor;,
- /usr/lib/python3, and
- /usr/share/doc/python-&python-version;
- </seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
-
- <variablelist>
- <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
- <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
- <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
-
- <varlistentry id="python-2to3">
- <term><command>2to3</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- is a <application>Python</application> program that reads
- <application>Python 2.x</application> source code and applies a
- series of fixes to transform it into valid
- <application>Python 3.x</application> code.
- </para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-Python">
- <primary sortas="b-2to3">2to3</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="idle3">
- <term><command>idle3</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- is a wrapper script that opens a <application>Python</application>
- aware GUI editor. For this script to run, you must have installed
- <application>Tk</application> before Python so that the Tkinter
- Python module is built.
- </para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-Python">
- <primary sortas="b-idle3">idle3</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="pip3">
- <term><command>pip3</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The package installer for Python. You can use pip to install
- packages from Python Package Index and other indexes.
- </para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-Python">
- <primary sortas="b-pip3">pip3</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="pydoc3">
- <term><command>pydoc3</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- is the <application>Python</application> documentation tool.
- </para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-Python">
- <primary sortas="b-pydoc3">pydoc3</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="python3">
- <term><command>python3</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
- language.
- </para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-Python">
- <primary sortas="b-python3">python3</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-<!--
- <varlistentry id="pyvenv">
- <term><command>pyvenv</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- creates virtual <application>Python</application> environments in
- one or more target directories.
- </para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-Python">
- <primary sortas="b-pyvenv">pyvenv</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
--->
- </variablelist>
-
- </sect2>
-
-</sect1>
-