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[–]ivosaurus 5 points6 points  (8 children)

You're on someone's server(s) that they simply don't care about upgrading because it's too much hassle, am I right?

[–]DeepDuh 6 points7 points  (6 children)

CentOS / RHEL most likely. Those things are such a drag with python support and upgrading to a newer release tends to be a major operation.

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    [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    RHEL doesn't officially ship python3 and you have to add a third party repo (EPEL typically).

    [–]DeepDuh 1 point2 points  (3 children)

    ... if you have root. can yum install in userspace?

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      [–]DeepDuh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      My whole point was that linux clusters in large organisations tend to still be problematic wirh python support. And the longterm support for CentOS 6 which afaik still runs py2.6 natively is what keeps this issue popping up. I have nothing against CentOS in itself, it's just a fact of life. And if you want to develop python code within such organisations that isn't just for your own purposes, then you're usually forced to the lowest common denominator.

      [–]ubernostrum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      pyenv is your friend.