RedHat Linux上安装

用二进制包在类UNIX系统上安装Python很容易，你只需到http://www.python.org/ftp/python/下的rpms/目录中去下载你所需的版本既可。
下面是一个下载安装例子：

localhost:~$ su -
Password: [enter your root password]
[root@localhost root]# wget http://python.org/ftp/python/2.3/rpms/redhat-9/python2.3-2.3-5pydotorg.i386.rpm
Resolving python.org... done.
Connecting to python.org[194.109.137.226]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 7,495,111 [application/octet-stream]
...
[root@localhost root]# rpm -Uvh python2.3-2.3-5pydotorg.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:python2.3 ########################################### [100%]

好了，你已成功安装了Python,要启动它只需如下即可：

[root@localhost root]# python2.3
Python 2.3 (#1, Sep 12 2003, 10:53:56)
[GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits", or "license" for more information.
>>>