Python3 on Ubuntu

• Overview
• Quick Links
• Prerequisites
• Getting Started
  • (macOS users only) upgrading GNU make
  • Creating the local environment
• Help
• Docker Image Development and Management
  • Building the container image
  • Searching images
  • Image tagging
  • Building the image with a different Python 3 version
• Interact with Python3

Overview

This repository manages the customised Docker image build of Python3 on Ubuntu. You can target any Python 3 verions against any Ubuntu release. Just follow the makester settings below.

Bypassing the Docker Hub Official Image Python image build is much more work, but gives us more flexibility to address CVEs.

The image build process is based on GitHub Python project's Docker build with a switch to Ubuntu base. Not sure why there isn't a Ubuntu variant available in the Official Python images?

Quick Links

• Ubuntu
• Python 3

Prerequisites

• GNU make
• Python 3 Interpreter. We recommend installing pyenv
• Docker

Getting Started

Makester is used as the Integrated Developer Platform.

(macOS users only) upgrading GNU make

Follow these notes to get GNU make.

Creating the local environment

Get the code and change into the top level git project directory:

git clone https://github.com/loum/python3-ubuntu.git && cd python3-ubuntu

Note

Run all commands from the top-level directory of the git repository.

For first-time setup, get the Makester project:

Initialise the environment:

make init

Help

There should be a make target to be able to get most things done. Check the help for more information:

make help

Docker Image Development and Management

Building the container image

Note

Ubuntu base image is noble 24.04

Build the image with:

make image-buildx

By default, the container image will build with the user:group combinatation user:user. The user uid is 49899. It is possible to override these values during the container build process by providing values for the Makefile variables IMAGE_UID, IMAGE_USER and IMAGE_GROUP. This is demonstrated in the following make plan:

make -n IMAGE_UID=2000 IMAGE_USER=dodge IMAGE_GROUP=dodgier image-buildx

Searching images

To list the available Docker images::

make image-search

Image tagging

By default, makester will tag the new Docker image with the current branch hash. This provides a degree of uniqueness but is not very intuitive. That is where the tag-version Makefile target can help. To apply tag as per project tagging convention <ubuntu-code>-<python3-version>-<image-release-number>:

make image-tag-version

Example output: loum/python3-ubuntu:noble-3.11.1-1

To tag the image as latest

make image-tag-latest

Example output: loum/python3-ubuntu:latest

To tag the image main line (without the <image-release-number> that ensures the latest Ubuntu release:

make image-tag-major

Example output: loum/python3-noble-3.11

Building the image with a different Python 3 version

During the image build, a fresh compile of the Python binaries is performed. In theory, any Python release under https://www.python.org/ftp/python/ can be used. You will need to supply the PYTHON_MAJOR_MINOR_VERSION and PYTHON_RELEASE_VERSION to the image build target. For example, to build an image with Python 3.10.4:

PYTHON_MAJOR_MINOR_VERSION=3.10 PYTHON_RELEASE_VERSION=4 make image-buildx

To validate the image runs as expected:

make container-run

On success this will drop you into the Python interpreter.

Interact with python3

To get the python3 version:

make python-version

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