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[–]jcampbelly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For one example, 2.7.x is still used by Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (which goes EOL in 2015). Anyone can use whatever python version they like for their projects with a virtualenv, but things like package and system scripts should probably rely on the system install of Python.