You can get a more recent Python from Software Collections, too: https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/?search=python https://www.softwarecollections.org

You can get a more recent Python from Software Collections, too: https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/?search=python https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/?search=python Up to Python 3.5 and 3.6 will probably follow shortly after release. This is blessed and QA'd by Red Hat themselves, so it's as good as it gets. "My distro only has Python 2" has to be one of the worst excuses not to use Python 3 :-) Obvious exception are systems tools (did you know that Ansible modules have to compatible with Python 2.4 since that's what CentOS 5 uses?). But those are the absolute minority.