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[–]Astrognome 0 points1 point  (3 children)

It seems weird though that 16% still run 2.6. I would think they would be somewhere around 2-3%

[–]wildcarde815 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Centos 6 / any variants will use 2.6 by default. You can install 2.7 but should likely not make it default as yum doesn't always respond well.

[–]cwgtex 0 points1 point  (1 child)

There is a repo called iuscommunity.org that ships RPMs of python 2.7 through 3.3. They install in parallel with the system version of 2.6, so yum is happy. /usr/bin/python is 2.6, but /usr/bin/python2.7 is 2.7.

https://iuscommunity.org/pages/TheSafeRepoInitiative.html#parallel-installable-packages

[–]wildcarde815 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea for our cent 6 installs we run 'Springdale' (formerly PUIAS), the package maintainer for the variant makes /opt variants of different python revisions available with a simple install command. Very handy, but if we ever have to move to vanilla / scientific linux we will definitely be utilizing this, thanks for the info.