Pythonbrew

pythonbrew is a program to automate the building and installation of python in the users HOME. Pythonbrew is inspired by perlbrew, that we have just commented in a previous post.

The installation is very simple, actually, is like perlbrew.

$ curl -kLO http://github.com/utahta/pythonbrew/raw/master/pythonbrew-install $ chmod +x pythonbrew-install $./pythonbrew-install

This installation is in $HOME by default. If you want to install in other directory, we will need to set PYTHONBREW_ROOT variable.

Now, we can install any python version. For instance:

$ pythonbrew install 3.2 $ pythonbrew use 3.2

Some useful commands:

• pythonbrew use   : Switch a particular version in a current session.
• pythonbrew switch: change system python version. 
• pythonbrew update: It updates pythonbrew version
• pythonbrew list: It shows a list with all python installed.

References

• Pythonbrew website