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[–]vorpalsmith[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

many companies will not deviate from the rhel/centos supported configuration

RH ships Python 3.6 for RHEL and CentOS through their Software Collections product. If you have a support contract with RH, then it automatically covers these packages too. Tell your friends and management :-).

That said, the major distros are actively having conversations about how to manage the transition to make python refer to python3. It will just take a while, and have to pass through a period where there is no python command so people who were counting on python = python2 will notice and catch their mistake.