What version of Python does XBMC 12.0 (Frodo) use?

Question

It would be more appropriate to ask this question on the XBMC forum, but it is down for maintenance and weekends don't last forever!

What version of Python does XBMC 12.0 use and/or require a plugin to be written in? The prerequisites section here states:

Python interpreter 2.4 (use the same version as XBMC or version <= 2.7 ) install on the machine running Eclipse

... which suggests that some unknown version of XBMC once required a version of Python 2.4 <= N <= 2.7

On the other hand, the scripts and plugins section here suggests that maybe version 2.1.0 or 2.0.0 may be required/used.

Answer 1

It depends on what platform and with what options XBMC is built with. Since the configure script required at least 2.4 and 3.x is generally not compatible, that indeed leaves 2.4 - 2.7. By default, you'll get the one installed as a -dev package on the compiling machine, which will most likely be the default one of your distribution.

2.1.0 is just the version number of the Python add-on, and unrelated to the Python installation itself.