Debian is security driven, so they stay fairly up-to-date (currently
2.7.9-2).  Debian 8 also supports python 3.4 though I have not personally
tried the setup for this.

CentOS 7 is using 2.7.5 or higher; I looked in one of the RPM mirrors.

V/R,
William

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Bill Deegan <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 2.7 or 2.7.0 ?
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 7:39 AM, William Blevins <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Russel Winder <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 13:23 -0700, Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
>>> > Hi All--
>>> > The trouble with requiring a minimum of 2.7.x on all platforms is
>>> > that it
>>> > would be problematic for people on CentOS, Redhat and related distros
>>> > earlier than say, CentOS 7.  7 has 2.7, but 6 has 2.6 (and not the
>>> > latest
>>> > version, either).  Anyone who wanted to use CentOS 6 would have to
>>> > install
>>> > Python 2.7.x to use Scons.  Might not want to do it, or would go with
>>> > an
>>> > earlier version.
>>>
>>> Of course,…
>>>
>>> CentOS, RHEL, Scientific Linux, etc. don't come with SCons so it has to
>>> be installed. Is it a hardship to have to install a version of Python
>>> as well as SCons? Not really, especially on these systems. Although the
>>> main repository doesn't have Python 3 necessarily, there are "add on"
>>> repositories for these distributions that certainly do. So it is just
>>> package management, unlike for SCons :-)
>>>
>>>
>> Debian 8 is also Python 2.7
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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