I have Karmic Koala which has Python 2.6 installed by default.
However I can't run any Python App Engine projects because they require Python 2.5 and python ssl.
To install ssl I installed python2.5-dev first while following some instructions I found elsewhere.
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo apt-get install python2.5-dev
sudo easy_install-2.5 pyopenssl
However, I am afraid this is not good for my Ubuntu installation since Ubuntu expects to see version 2.6 of Python when you type 'python' on the command line. Instead, it says '2.5.5'.
But App Engine still doesn't work after all this. I continue to get an SSL-related error whenever I try to run my Python app:
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTTPSHandler'
UPDATE1: Just checked whether SSL actually installed as a result of those commands by typing this:
$ python2.5
Python 2.5.5 (r255:77872, Apr 29 2010, 23:59:20)
[GCC 4.4.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import ssl
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named ssl
>>>
As you can see, SSL is still not installed, which explains the continuing App Engine error.
UPDATE2:
I tried to revert to the original default version of Python by doing this:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2.6 python
in my /usr/bin/local
folder.
Now I get Python 2.6.4 when I type 'python' on the command line.
But this doesn't solve my App Engine SSL issue.
If anyone knows how I can dig myself out of this hole, I would appreciate it.