-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2011-0521 2011-02-28 23:36:43 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : python26 Product : Fedora EPEL 5 Version : 2.6.5 Release : 6.el5 URL : http://www.python.org/ Summary : An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language Description : Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. Python includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems (X11, Motif, Tk, Mac and MFC).
Programmers can write new built-in modules for Python in C or C++. Python can be used as an extension language for applications that need a programmable interface. This package contains most of the standard Python modules, as well as modules for interfacing to the Tix widget set for Tk and RPM.
Note that documentation for Python is provided in the python-docs package.
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[ 1 ] Bug #678690 - Provide support for multi-python byte compiling https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678690 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update python26' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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