Information about the package, python, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The python package is designed for, An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.
Package Name:
python
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. Note that documentation for Python is provided in the python-docs package. This package provides the "python" executable; most of the actual implementation is within the "python-libs" package.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.6.6
Release:
66.el6_8
Size:
78 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
updates
Licence:
Python
Control the python package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install python
This command will install python on the server.
yum remove python
This command will un-install python on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove python, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove python
This command will un-install python on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove python when using the -y flag.
yum update python
This command will update python to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove python, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update python
This command will update python to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove python when using the -y flag.
yum info python
This command will show you core information about the python package.
yum deplist python
This command will show you the dependencies for python. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update python
This command will check if there is an update waiting on python. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.