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Hi Active Python forum

I am a CentOS linux user interested in using python for a range of research purposes in Oceanography. I have had a hard time building python with all the bells and wistles on my system, (readline, tktcl etc). I was wondering if there is an active binary that I could install that would include these features and allow me to build modules like NumPy, SciPy , IPython and PyCDF ontop of active Python? I also need shared libraries from python for building other apps. like MPICH and VISIT which use python ( as if python was configured with "--enable-shared")

Is that possible or am I stuck building it myself?

David