On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 4:05:51 AM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 10:49:44 PM UTC, John H Palmieri wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 3:24:13 PM UTC-7, David Roe wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Dima Pasechnik <dim...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> we now decompress tarfiles with python >>>> >>>> https://docs.python.org/2/library/tarfile.html >>>> >>>> and all the features of it are only in Python 2.7. Hmm... >>>> >>> >>> This seems like a bad idea; there are lots of systems that won't have >>> Python 2.7. >>> David >>> >> >> Python 2.7 was released 5 years ago. >> > > moreover, 2.6 is unsupported since Oct 2013. It's really bad idea to still > use it, > as there are security problems which are no longer fixed by the upstream. >
Be that as it may, apparently my work server is running CentOS 6.7, and the supported version of Python in that distro is 2.6.6. (That being said, my sysadmin installed a newer Python locally, which solves my immediate problem.) Kiran -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
