Recommended compiler for Python?

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Thu Dec 1 14:37:16 EST 2005


On Thursday 01 December 2005 1:06 pm, Valo S. Gonzalez wrote:
> Thanks so much for your answers.  With regard to Mr. Underhill's
> response: I'm a little confused too.  I know that Linux asked me if I
> wanted Python while I was installing Slackware and I did say yes,
> however, I don't get anything except a short description of what Python
> is from the man pages in Slackware 10.1, and in my Slackware Linux
> Unleashed 3rd edition there's nothing I could find that makes any
> reference to Python at all.  How do I envoke the software/programme, etc,
> needed to start using Python?  Again, your help even thusfar is very much
> appreciated. :-)
The Python(1) command should be sufficient. I don't know what slackware has 
for man pages, but SuSE has a decent man page for Python. Go to 
http://www.python.org/ for as much documentation on Python as you want. 
There are also plenty of books. 
Here is a Beginners guide on that site:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide
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