FWIW, RHEL 6 still uses Python 2.6, although 2.7.8 and 3.3.2 are available through Red Hat Software Collections. See: https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/
I run an academic compute cluster on RHEL 6. We do, however, provide Python 2.7.x and 3.5.x via modulefiles. On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Nicholas Chammas <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com > wrote: > +1 > > Red Hat supports Python 2.6 on REHL 5 until 2020 > <https://alexgaynor.net/2015/mar/30/red-hat-open-source-community/>, but > otherwise yes, Python 2.6 is ancient history and the core Python developers > stopped supporting it in 2013. REHL 5 is not a good enough reason to > continue support for Python 2.6 IMO. > > We should aim to support Python 2.7 and Python 3.3+ (which I believe we > currently do). > > Nick > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 8:01 AM Allen Zhang <allenzhang...@126.com> wrote: > >> plus 1, >> >> we are currently using python 2.7.2 in production environment. >> >> >> >> >> >> 在 2016-01-05 18:11:45，"Meethu Mathew" <meethu.mat...@flytxt.com> 写道： >> >> +1 >> We use Python 2.7 >> >> Regards, >> >> Meethu Mathew >> >> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote: >> >>> Does anybody here care about us dropping support for Python 2.6 in Spark >>> 2.0? >>> >>> Python 2.6 is ancient, and is pretty slow in many aspects (e.g. json >>> parsing) when compared with Python 2.7. Some libraries that Spark depend on >>> stopped supporting 2.6. We can still convince the library maintainers to >>> support 2.6, but it will be extra work. I'm curious if anybody still uses >>> Python 2.6 to run Spark. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> >>> >> -- David Chin, Ph.D. david.c...@drexel.edu Sr. Systems Administrator, URCF, Drexel U. http://www.drexel.edu/research/urcf/ https://linuxfollies.blogspot.com/ +1.215.221.4747 (mobile) https://github.com/prehensilecode
