> May I ask why? Independence. When you upgrade to RH7, you don't need to worry if all your scripts will run with Python 2.7, they'll still point to your own

> May I ask why? Independence. When you upgrade to RH7, you don't need to worry if all your scripts will run with Python 2.7, they'll still point to your own 2.6. You can decide to upgrade to 2.7 (or not) on your own time. You can do it before or after your migration to RH7; they're independent decisions. Even ignoring Python3, Python occasionally breaks backwards compatibility (the deprecate, warnings, then errors dance). It's nice to control your own situation. But our programs are internal-use only. So we don't have the same concerns with security updates, ease of deployment to customers, etc., that you may face.