Yes, that would make sense. The site I got this from (http://the.taoofmac.com http://the.taoofmac.com) mentions using PyPy on all machines to run it (which is e

Yes, that would make sense. The site I got this from (http://the.taoofmac.com http://the.taoofmac.com) mentions using PyPy on all machines to run it (which is effectively Python 2.7.1 at this point), but then again, you have to match versions very closely when you're using Hadoop and HDFS anyway... Python is actually easier to deploy in matched runtimes across a cluster :)