pythonbuild

Dockerfile

FROM buildpack-deps:jessie

# remove several traces of debian python
RUN apt-get purge -y python.*

# http://bugs.python.org/issue19846
# > At the moment, setting "LANG=C" on a Linux system *fundamentally breaks Python 3*, and that's not OK.
ENV LANG C.UTF-8

RUN gpg --keyserver ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys C01E1CAD5EA2C4F0B8E3571504C367C218ADD4FF

ENV PYTHON_VERSION 2.7.10

# if this is called "PIP_VERSION", pip explodes with "ValueError: invalid truth value '<VERSION>'"
ENV PYTHON_PIP_VERSION 7.1.0

RUN set -x \
	&& mkdir -p /usr/src/python \
	&& curl -SL "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/$PYTHON_VERSION/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz" -o python.tar.xz \
	&& curl -SL "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/$PYTHON_VERSION/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz.asc" -o python.tar.xz.asc \
	&& gpg --verify python.tar.xz.asc \
	&& tar -xJC /usr/src/python --strip-components=1 -f python.tar.xz \
	&& rm python.tar.xz* \
	&& cd /usr/src/python \
	&& ./configure --enable-shared --enable-unicode=ucs4 \
	&& make -j$(nproc) \
	&& make install \
	&& ldconfig \
	&& curl -SL 'https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py' | python2 \
	&& pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade pip==$PYTHON_PIP_VERSION \
	&& find /usr/local \
		\( -type d -a -name test -o -name tests \) \
		-o \( -type f -a -name '*.pyc' -o -name '*.pyo' \) \
		-exec rm -rf '{}' + \
	&& rm -rf /usr/src/python

# install "virtualenv", since the vast majority of users of this image will want it
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir virtualenv

CMD ["python2"]