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On 04/20/2014 12:02 PM, Bernd Waterkamp wrote:
> Michael Torrie schrieb:
> 
>> For example, RHEL 6 is Red Hat's most current enterprise distribution and
>> it does not yet even ship Python 2.7, to say nothing of Python 3.  RHEL
>> 7 has python 2.7 as the default system dependency, and currently does
>> not yet have any python3 packages in the official main repo, 
> 
> python2.7 and python3.3 are availabe in "RedHat Software Collections":
> 
> https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Software_Collections/1/html/1.0_Release_Notes/chap-RHSCL.html
> http://developerblog.redhat.com/2014/02/18/migrate-to-python3-w-rhscl/
> 
> So there is at least a chance if you want to (or have to) use "official"
> packages from the distributor. 

Brilliant!  Thanks.