[Cloud] Re: Python upgrade on the Toolforge

2021-09-26 Thread Roy Smith
I don't know if it's generally available yet, but I've been using tools-sgebastion-11, which is running Debian Buster with Python 3.7. On the other hand, I don't actually use the system Python. Quite a while ago, before the Buster machine was available, I built Python 3.7 from source and I've

[Cloud] Re: Python upgrade on the Toolforge

2021-09-26 Thread AntiCompositeNumber
The grid and bastions only support Python 3.5; that won't change until they get an OS upgrade (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275864). As you noted, python 3.7 and 3.9 are available on Kubernetes but writing YAML configuration can be complex. There is a project to build a tool similar to jsub

[Cloud] Python upgrade on the Toolforge

2021-09-26 Thread Huji Lee
Hi all, When I run python3 --version on Toolforge I see version 3.5.3 is installed. Because python 3.5 reached the end of its life in September 2020, pip is really unhappy about that. Is there a way to use a later version of python3 on Toolforge? If not, are there plans to upgrade the OS and