On Saturday 08 July 2017 13:06:29 Kris G wrote: > Hi, > > I am considering switching over to Debian from Fedora. I was wondering if > Debian Jessie has python pre installed? Or does it have to be installed via > the terminal as an apt-get? > > I apologise if this is a silly question? > > Regards. > > Sent from my iPhone
Why are you thinking of causing yourself problems by installing Jessie (Old Stable, soon out of support) when the current Stable is Stretch? To answer your question: lisi@Eros:~$ aptitude show python Package: python State: installed Automatically installed: no Multi-Arch: allowed Version: 2.7.9-1 Priority: standard Section: python Maintainer: Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Uncompressed Size: 696 k Depends: python2.7 (>= 2.7.9-1~), libpython-stdlib (= 2.7.9-1) PreDepends: python-minimal (= 2.7.9-1) Suggests: python-doc (= 2.7.9-1), python-tk (>= 2.7.9-1~) Conflicts: python-central (< 0.5.5), python-central (< 0.5.5), python Breaks: update-manager-core (< 0.200.5-2), update-manager-core (< 0.200.5-2) Replaces: python-dev (< 2.6.5-2), python-dev (< 2.6.5-2) Provides: python-ctypes, python-email, python-importlib, python-profiler, python-wsgiref, python:any Description: interactive high-level object-oriented language (default version) Python, the high-level, interactive object oriented language, includes an extensive class library with lots of goodies for network programming, system administration, sounds and graphics. This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian's default Python version (currently v2.7). Homepage: http://www.python.org/ Tags: devel::interpreter, devel::lang:python, implemented-in::c, implemented-in::python, interface::commandline, role::metapackage, role::program, scope::utility lisi@Eros:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 8.8 lisi@Eros:~$ Lisi