Installs and configures Python. Also includes LWRPs for managing python packages with pip and virtualenv isolated Python environments.

• Debian, Ubuntu
• CentOS, Red Hat, Fedora

• build-essential
• yum

NOTE: The yum cookbook is a dependency of the cookbook, and will be used to install EPEL on RedHet/CentOS 5.x systems to provide the Python 2.6 packages.

See attributes/default.rb for default values.

• node["python"]["install_method"] - method to install python with, default package.

The file also contains the following attributes:

• platform specific locations and settings.
• source installation settings

This cookbook includes LWRPs for managing:

• pip packages
• virtualenv isolated Python environments

Install packages using the new hotness in Python package management...pip. Yo dawg...easy_install is so 2009, you better ask your local Pythonista if you don't know! The usage semantics are like that of any normal package provider.

• :install: Install a pip package - if version is provided, install that specific version
• :upgrade: Upgrade a pip package - if version is provided, upgrade to that specific version
• :remove: Remove a pip package
• :purge: Purge a pip package (this usually entails removing configuration files as well as the package itself). With pip packages this behaves the same as :remove