[Python-Dev] Python version incorrect on website? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Mar 12 10:52:52 CET 2007

Rajstennaj Barrabas schrieb:

I have an application which runs on 2.4.4 and is known not to run on 2.4.1 or 2.5, and I'm trying to install 2.4.4 from the website.

Whenever I download and compile the 2.4.4 sources, the executable shows up as 2.4.1 which will not work for my application. I've downloaded both the bzip and gzip versions, and checked the MD5 sums as posted on the website, but the 2.4.4 system still shows 2.4.1 when run. The local file "buildno" contains the number "1", and the command ./python -V returns the string 2.4.1. (Linux 2.6.8-2-686, everything is apt-get "current". I'm downloading the source tar files because apt-get doesn't have the version I need.) Is there a mismatch on the python website?

It would have helped if you had reported what the precise URL was that you downloaded, and what precise md5sum you got.

I can confirm that the official URL for Python 2.4.4 is

http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.4/Python-2.4.4.tar.bz2

and the official md5sum of that is

0ba90c79175c017101100ebf5978e906

Regards, Martin

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