On 09/08/2017 06:40 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Leam Hall <leamh...@gmail.com>:
However, those millions of servers are running Python 2.6 and a
smaller number running 2.7. At least in the US market since Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and its derivatives run 2.6.6 (RHEL 6) or 2.7.5 (RHEL
7). Not sure what Python SuSE uses but they seem to have a fairly
large European footprint. RHEL 7 goes out the active support door (End
of Production Phase 3) mid-2024.
Ok, the owners of those millions of servers have a problem in their
hands.
What you are saying is that there will be a bonanza next year for Python
2-to-3 consultants. It will also involve a forced upgrade to RHEL 8
(which is nowhere in sight yet).
Not really, though a growing market is good. The OS system tools are in
Python 2 so that's what is installed. Nothing prevents an application
from installing Python 3, it just can't overwrite the OS python.
Application developers can put Python 3 in /usr/local or can use one of
the probably older python3 rpm stacks. My dev box has both the OS Python
2.6.6 and Python 3.6.2 called as python3.
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