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> Our old servers are on SLES 11 which has Python 2.6 and even our new boxes have RHEL 7 which has Python 2.7 only by default. Not to sound condescending... Bu
by josteink 8y ago
> Our old servers are on SLES 11 which has Python 2.6 and even our new boxes have RHEL 7 which has Python 2.7 only by default.
Not to sound condescending... But why does this single default matter that much?
I'm sure you install lot of things onto these machines which isn't there by default, right?
Why is installing Python 3 on top of all those other non-default packages such a problem?
- VWWHFSfQ 8y agoI prefer to install as few 3rd party packages as possible. In RHEL7 until recently Python 3 was only available via 3rd party repos, until EPEL added it. So now it's not that big of a deal to install python3, but before that why would I go about adding ius or something to get a modern python when there's a perfectly fine Python 2.7 built into the system for running sysadmin jobs?
- hencoappel 8y ago> perfectly fine Python 2.7 Not sure how you see a system being deprecated in 2020 as perfectly fine.