BuildPython is a python library to download and build a specified version of python into a specified directory.
That's it.
The code is basically derived from pyenv but provides a bit of a nicer wrapper.
It was built for use with http://hitchtest.com/ so that you can test the same code with multiple versions of python.
Install::
$ pip install python-build
Use in python::
import python_build python_build.python_build("2.7.3", "/home/user/projectdirectory/py273")
Use outside of python::
$ python-build 2.7.3 /home/user/projectdirectory/py273
Help::
$ python-build --help
FAQs
Tool to download and build python based upon pyenv.
We found that python-build demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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