On 09/03/2017 10:06 AM, David Rock wrote:
On Sep 3, 2017, at 08:55, Mats Wichmann <m...@wichmann.us> wrote:
On 09/03/2017 04:02 AM, Leam Hall wrote:
Anyone that uses python on Linux has to use Python 2.
Every current distro I know of has a python 3 package, plus lots and
lots of add-ons in python 3 mode. It's quite easy to use python 3 as a
result... and if that doesn't work you can install your own to your
workspace (rather than as a "system package") just as easily.
While a bit anecdotal, the complaint is valid. Red Hat does not support Python
3 in their base installation on RHEL and the only way to get it “officially”
(i.e., directly from Red hat) is through Software Collections, which is a bit
cumbersome to use and not available in all cases. There are a lot of places
(including where I work) that frown heavily on using packages that aren’t from
the base repositories from the OS maintainers.
Installing into “your own workspace” isn’t so easy when you are talking about
2000 servers, either. In order for me to write code that I know will work
across all the servers, I have to use python 2 because I know it will be there.
I can’t say the same thing about python 3, and that’s not something I’m likely
to be able to fix within the bounds of company procedures.
So while the original statement is obviously false, the heart of why it was
said is functionally true.
Sorry; there's a significant gap between what I wrote and what I meant.
My fault.
If you use the OS system's Python then you're using Python 2. That will
continue for the next five or more years. I'm in the same boat as David;
installing Python 3 is a non-starter. That's not the case for a lot of
folks, but if I'm going to write something there's a high probability
that Python 3 won't be on the target machine.
While I prefer 2 over 3, if I went in to work and everything was
magically Python 3 based I wouldn't whine. Much.
Sorry for the miscommunication earlier.
Leam
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