> > I've always considered it bad to use the RH provided python for development. > May I ask why? A great deal of the Red Hat management tools use that Python

> > I've always considered it bad to use the RH provided python for development. > May I ask why? A great deal of the Red Hat management tools use that Python, so it's not something I advocate altering beyond the python packages provided by RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux. Yes I can use virtualenv, but by the time I'm going that far, especially in the event of deploying 100's to 1000's of hosts, having a separate installation just isn't so difficult.