On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:12:42AM -0400, ? Michael Weiner wrote: > On 6/23/06 9:40 AM, "Mihai Ibanescu" <misa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I've put together some python 2.5 (beta 1) packages. You can grab them from: > > > > http://people.redhat.com/misa/rpms/python-2.5-rawhide/ > > > > (yum repos). > > > > > > The packages should install cleanly side by side with the standard python > > 2.4.3 packages. Applications will continue to use 2.4 unless you explicitly > > invoke python25 or python2.5 (or your #! line says python2.5). > > > > If you want to see a glimpse of what is coming up in the python world, go > > ahead and check the packages out. > > > > If there is interest, I can produce packages for FC5 too. > > Thank you Misa, the source RPM builds fine for fc5, just a question for you > though out of curiosity, what is the purpose of the japanese site-package? Here's the module's descrption: DESCRIPTION = """\ This package provides Unicode codecs that make Python aware of Japanese character encodings such as EUC-JP, Shift_JIS and ISO-2022-JP. By using this package, Japanese characters can be treated as a character string instead of a byte sequence.""" I haven't had much experience with it myself, it's been in the python package before I took over. Here's when and why they got in: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66352 > And is there any doc/pydoc on the smtpd thats built as well? This works for me: pydoc25 smtpd Cheers, Misa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list