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Bumped minimum Python version requirement to 2.7 in Django 1.7.
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Thanks for downloading Django.

To install it, make sure you have Python 2.6 or greater installed. Then run
To install it, make sure you have Python 2.7 or greater installed. Then run
this command from the command prompt:

python setup.py install
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lives. Some places you might check are:

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (Unix, Python 2.7)
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages (Unix, Python 2.6)
C:\\PYTHON\site-packages (Windows)

For more detailed instructions, see docs/intro/install.txt.
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What are Django's prerequisites?
--------------------------------

Django requires Python, specifically Python 2.6.5 - 2.7.x, or 3.2.3 and above.
No other Python libraries are required for basic Django usage.
Django requires Python, specifically Python 2.7 or 3.2 and above. No other
Python libraries are required for basic Django usage.

For a development environment -- if you just want to experiment with Django --
you don't need to have a separate Web server installed; Django comes with its
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1.3 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7
1.4 2.5, 2.6, 2.7
1.5 2.6, 2.7 and 3.2, 3.3 (experimental)
**1.6** **2.6, 2.7** and **3.2, 3.3**
*1.7 (future)* *2.7* and *3.2, 3.3*
1.6 2.6, 2.7 and 3.2, 3.3
**1.7** **2.7** and **3.2, 3.3**
============== ===============

For a given series of Python versions, only the latest release is officially
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Install Python
--------------

Being a Python Web framework, Django requires Python. It works with Python 2.6,
2.7, 3.2 or 3.3. All these versions of Python include a lightweight database
called SQLite_ so you won't need to set up a database just yet.
Being a Python Web framework, Django requires Python. It works with Python 2.7,
3.2 or 3.3. All these versions of Python include a lightweight database called
SQLite_ so you won't need to set up a database just yet.

.. _sqlite: http://sqlite.org/

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You can verify that Python is installed by typing ``python`` from your shell;
you should see something like::

Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 26 2010, 22:31:48)
[GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
Python 2.7.3 (default, Jan 2 2013, 13:56:14)
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

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Install Python
==============

Being a Python Web framework, Django requires Python. It works with Python 2.6,
2.7, 3.2 or 3.3.
Being a Python Web framework, Django requires Python. It works with Python 2.7,
3.2 or 3.3.

Get Python at http://www.python.org. If you're running Linux or Mac OS X, you
probably already have it installed.
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'Operating System :: OS Independent',
'Programming Language :: Python',
'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6',
'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.2',
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