On Sunday 10 September 2017 05:25:51 Leam Hall wrote: > On 09/10/2017 04:19 AM, Chris Warrick wrote: > > On 10 September 2017 at 09:30, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > >> INADA Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com>: > >>> I can't wait Python 3 is the default Python of Red Hat, and > >>> "python" command means Python 3 on Debian and Ubuntu. > >> > >> I can't wait till Python 3 is available on Red Hat. > > > > Python 3.4 is available in EPEL. RHEL 8 will switch to Python 3 as > > the main Python interpreter (assuming dnf replaces yum, as it did in > > Fedora a while back). > > I'm not sure that RHEL 8 will be Python 3 for the OS tools. Even if it > is, which version? > > From a non-rpm perspective Python 3.6.2 compiles nicely on CentOS 6. > Once compiled it seems easy to use pip3 to install stuff without > trampling on the OS's Python 2 install. > > Just have to make sure your PATH is set right. By putting > /usr/local/bin after /usr/bin I can use "py.test" to run tests under > Python 2 and "pytest" for Python 3. > > Leam
But that is contrary to the usual practice, fixed so that stuff built and installed locally, with identical names to the distro's /usr/bin contents, is found first in /usr/local/bin and the newer version is used. That "usual practice" is going to be a very high hill to climb. I personally would never consider it as a solution to this p2 vs p3 problem. > p.s. Sorry Chris, meant to send this to the list. You get it twice. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
