On Sunday, March 27, 2016 at 2:24:33 PM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > > On Sunday, March 27, 2016 at 11:13:33 AM UTC+1, Kiran Kedlaya wrote: >> >> >> >> 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.) >> > > https://www.centos.org/download/ > > only lists version 6.7 among > Older Versions > Legacy versions of CentOS are no longer supported. For historical > purposes, CentOS keeps an archive of older versions. If you’re absolutely > sure you need an older version then click here » > <http://wiki.centos.org/Download> > > On the other hand, 6.7 does have EoL Nov 2020. I presume RH backports > whatever is needed from Python, etc, to keep it running. On the other hand > they definitely provide Python 2.7 packages, as well, see > http://vault.centos.org/6.7/sclo/Source/rh/python27/ > > > In any case, at trac #20252 we have a fix (positively reviewed, should be merged in the next beta) which should make this work with Python 2.6.
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