[Bug 301629] Re: Ubuntu Python not complete

[Devin Jeanpierre]

This breaks some of my code too. I've resorted to copying and pasting
code from Python just so that it works on the broken Ubuntu system.

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Title:
  Ubuntu Python not complete

Status in “python-defaults” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I am trying to use the standard tests (like test_list.py or
  test_dict.py) from the standard library (Python2.5), but they aren't
  available on a standard Ubuntu Hardy or Ibex installation. Searching
  in the official download, I found a rich test structure under
  'Lib/test/', but in my installation, this directory doesn't contain
  much. The apt-file script didn't find any packages for these specific
  files either. I looked manually in any 'python-' package that seemed
  reasonable (*-dbg, *-dev, for example), with no success. I asked in 
  the Python mailing list, nobody seems to know about that problem.
  (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-November/516690.html)

  I guess that the Python packages in Ubuntu are directly inherited from
  Debian. In that case, I am willing to contact the responsible Debian
  maintainers, and ask them to support the _complete_ Python distribution.

  Thanks for your work!

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