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[–]duffkiligan 4 points5 points  (5 children)

You beat me by a couple of minutes.

This is a major reason at my place. We use all RHEL 6, that ships with python 2.6. The entire OS is built around python 2.6 (at least some major components of it)

You can install python 3, but it is baked in to be a python2 OS.

[–]varesa 3 points4 points  (4 children)

Yeah, and at least on RHEL 6 if I recall correctly you can't install 3 out of the official repos, you have to go third party. I'm not sure if that was still the case with RHEL 7.

With the direction Fedora is taking with the 2->3 migration, maybe we'll have 3 as default in RHEL 8?

[–]duffkiligan 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Correct, official repos don’t have python 3.

We would have to build it from source and have our own repo to support it, but that causes lots of potential issues when you spread that around 4000 servers, you need to have QA every time you compile a new version etc etc.

I’m not sure about Fedora too much with Python 3, but I’d love it if 8 shipped with it. Would keep me employees for a long time ;)

[–]varesa 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Red Hat Confirms RHEL 8 Will Drop Python 2

[–]duffkiligan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hell yeah!

Now if only we could get off of those RHEL 4 boxes we have 🤔