Recommended compiler for Python?

[evared at lycos.com (Valo S. Gonzalez)]

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. :-)
To Mathew, thanks for the download.  I'll be able to start working 
Python on my WinXP machine as well.

Regards,

Valo

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>Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 09:22:06 -0500
>From: Larry Underhill <lgu at pobox.com>
>Subject: Re: Recommended compiler for Python?
>To: evared at lycos.com
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>On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 19:52 -0800, Valo S. Gonzalez wrote:
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>>Well after a little deliberation I've decided to learn Python, but I 
>>need a compiler.  Is there any one in particular you could recommend for me?
>>    
>>
>
>Hey there, Valo. Congrats on picking python. It is a fun language.
>
>I'm a little confused by your question. You don't need a compiler and
>python itself is typically shipped on every linux distro as it is
>commonly used for many sys admin tools. No extra effort needed. 
>
>[lgu at grindylow ~]$ which python
>/usr/bin/python
>
>You can interact with the interpreter easily enough to get started right
>away:
>
>[lgu at grindylow ~]$ python
>Python 2.3.4 (#1, Feb  2 2005, 12:11:53)
>[GCC 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)] on linux2
>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  
>
>>>>name = 'World'
>>>>print "Hello, %s" % name
>>>>        
>>>>
>Hello, World
>  
>
>(CTRL + D to exit back to shell)
>
>Hope that helps!
>
>--Larry
>
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>Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 09:26:18 -0500
>From: Matthew Gillen <me at mattgillen.net>
>Subject: Re: Recommended compiler for Python?
>To: evared at lycos.com
>Cc: discuss at blu.org
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>Valo S. Gonzalez wrote:
>  
>
>>Well after a little deliberation I've decided to learn Python, but I
>>need a compiler.  Is there any one in particular you could recommend for
>>me?
>>    
>>
>You should probably start with this:
>http://python.org/download/
>
>ActiveState ( http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePython/?mp=1 )
>apparently has a python implementation, but I've never used it (and
>don't know the details on the licensing).
>
>--Matt
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