Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bellman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For what it's worth, Fedora 8 has Python 2.5, RHEL 5 ships with > > Python 2.4, and RHEL 4 has Python 2.3. Suse and Debian, I don't > > know. > > The current Debian "stable" branch (4.0r3, "etch", released > 2008-02-17) has the 'python' package installing Python 2.4.4. > > The current Debian "testing" branch ("lenny", the next in line for > release) has the 'python' package installing Python 2.4.5. It also has > Python 2.5.2, and before too long will be installing that as the > 'python' package. > > The current Debian "unstable" branch (never to be released, but a > staging area for new package versions) has the 'python' package > installing Python 2.5.2.
Much better than the URLs I gave to the raw data, here is the full package information page for 'python-defaults' <URL:http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-defaults.html>. The section titled "Available versions" shows the current default versions of Python in all currently-supported branches of Debian. -- \ “Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why | `\ is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has | _o__) evolved to do.” —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list