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They do -- it's trivial to have python2 installed on the same system as python3. The deal with RHEL is that they will no longer include python2 packages at all.

by chungy 9y ago

They do -- it's trivial to have python2 installed on the same system as python3. The deal with RHEL is that they will no longer include python2 packages at all. That isn't really to say that somebody else won't make packages.

nfoz 9y ago
Thank you, that's much more clear. So RHEL is deprecating their python2 package i.e. declaring their intent to eventually remove it. For some reason "replaces X with Y" suggests to me that they swapped one for the other (e.g. /usr/bin/python) which seems error-prone.
- jononor 9y ago
  There are things included in RHEL which use Python. These will now use Python3 instead of Python2, so from that perspective it has been replaced.
- shakna 9y ago
  RHEL's system tools like yum use python2 today, but in the next release will rely on python3.
fnord123 9y ago
>The deal with RHEL is that they will no longer include python2 packages at all. Generally, if you are installing your own application you will use a virtualenv with all the packages closed off from the base operating system and dependencies installed with pip (we're all doing this, right folks!?).