Most Linux distributions package the Python development header files (which are needed to compile Python modules written in C) separately from the Python language itself. Ubuntu calls their package 'python-dev', and you could 'apt-get install python-dev' to install it. Other Linux distributions will call it something similar (such as 'python-devel').
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