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I've compiled, installed python 2.3 and it's pretty much the usual ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install affair, pretty boring, no? Bah! There's always things that I forgot, which makes python not exciting at all. I'm noting it down here so that I remember when I need to compile python again (like soon). Of course if there's an RPM I can use that contains all the modules I need, I'd use that instead. Sigh, Debian makes things easy

Things to have before compiling:

• libreadline-devel: Makes python interactive shell a lot more pleasurable
• bzip2-devel: For the new python bzip2 module
• db(3|4)-devel: For simple dict like storage in my programs (cross programming languages)
• tkinter: For the simple python GUI stuff

And things to install after a new python build:

• Twisted - I love this library/framework/tools/servers/swiss army knife/kitchen sink
• pyblosxom - And who wouldn't?
• mxbase - Needed by pypgsql
• PyPgSQL - That better database
• pysqlite - That nice and sweet and petite daemonless database
• Lupy - Search engine thingy (Need to learn/use)
• PyXML - XML utilities (any reason why these are not in the standard library?)

That's about all for now.