Installing Quixote

To install Quixote, two steps are required.

  1. (Python 2.0 and 2.1 only) Install the compiler code from the Python source distribution.
  2. Install the quixote Python package.

Installing the compiler code

Python contains a set of modules -- the compiler package -- for parsing Python source code and generating Python bytecode, and the PTL compiler is built on top of it. With Python 2.0 and 2.1, this package was included in Python's source distribution, but not installed as part of the standard library.

Thus, if you haven't upgraded to Python 2.2 yet, you'll need to install the compiler package yourself. Assuming your Python source distribution is in /tmp/Python-2.1.2:

cd /tmp/Python-2.1.2/Tools/compiler
python setup.py install

(Obviously, you'll have to adjust this to reflect your Python version and where you kept the source distribution after installing Python.)

If you're running Python 2.2 (or later), this step is unnecessary.

Installing the quixote package

Simply run:

python setup.py install

The quixote package and its subpackages will be copied into the appropriate directory for site-specific packages.