On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> writes: >> genuinely good reason... (Which might include "the customer insists", >> or "yeah, I know it sucks, but politics".) > > I think the current LTS versions of Ubuntu and Debian both come with > Python 2. Not sure about Centos/RHEL. Those seem like ok reasons to > me.
Current LTS versions of Debian and Ubuntu come with some version of Py3, and some version of Py2.7. You can see the exact 3.x versions here: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=python3&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all&exact=1 https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=python3&searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all§ion=all I don't know how to check RHEL package lists without having a license, but RHEL 4 and 5 came out before Py3 was released. So "we need to support RHEL 4" would be a legit reason to avoid Python 3 - but it's also a reason to avoid Python 2.7, as RHEL 4 ships with Python 2.3 or 2.4 or something. Also, I believe there are backports available, though I don't have proof of that. Use Python 3. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
