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Installation of Python 3 in Linux

Beliefs As our belief, every Linux flavor has Python as one of the Shell. but that shell was created long back based on the OS release time repositories. In the most common situation where built-in Python might be at Python 2.7.x version but the latest version is on Python 3.7.x. The big challenge here is 'how do I upgrade or install Python3 on Linux?' So I've chased this challenge and completed the latest version installed on my Oracle Linux box. Python 3 installation on RHELflavors How do I install Python3 latest version on Linux? Python Programming is simple and kids can learn by doing! It's capabilities to interact with machine internals and the simple structure makes easy to write and understand it. The latest Python version for download you can find from the Python official site . Here I'm installing Python3 on the Oracle Linux same steps will be followed on any RHEL flavors as well. yum -y groupinstall development yum -y install zlib-devel Note: I...

Control your PC from Python Code

Hey guys, One of the easiest programming languages in the World is our Python. Here this post is intended for those who want to learn the hacking techniques! Here I would like to share simple 4lines of Python hack tricks that make shutdown or restart your PC. The logic here is that have the function contains the CMD Command line 'shutdown' with forceful(/s) timeout as 1 minute. Shutdown logic is here... import os def shutdown(): os.system("shutdown /s /t 1") shutdown() Restart logic is here import os def restart(): os.system("shutdown /r /t 1") restart() Jump to Linux VM and same thought to execute the same script then it failed! "Must be root." The solution there you need to be superuser to shutdown your Linux machine. To have better understand about the shutdown command in Linux operating system, used the --help option. [vagrant@mydev ~]$ sudo shutdown --help shutdown [OPTIONS...] [TIME] [WALL...] Shut down the system. ...