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EDI Support
Nov 19, 2012, 11:44:37 AM11/19/12
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Hi All,
I would like know if Python 2.4.3 will be compatible with Linux RHEL 5.5 or 6.1?
Thanks
Tony
I would like know if Python 2.4.3 will be compatible with Linux RHEL 5.5 or 6.1?
Thanks
Tony
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Cameron Simpson
Nov 19, 2012, 7:41:32 PM11/19/12
to Dennis Lee Bieber, pytho...@python.org
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:44:37 -0800 (PST), EDI Support
| <nicole...@gmail.com> declaimed the following in
| gmane.comp.python.general:
mean...
On 19Nov2012 18:38, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlf...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
| Uhm...
| 1) Python 2.4.x is practically an antique. (I just updated my Windows
| machines to 2.7 from 2.5 -- and 2.7 will be the last 2.x version)
RHEL 5.x ships with python 2.4; a up to date RHEL 5.x box here has
2.4.3. I would not surprise me if that was what shipped with 5.0.
One feature if the RHEL distro is that it is _stable_. (See Dennis' point
(3)). They backport bugfixes and security fixes, but otherwise the base OS
doesn't change API. This produces reliable, predictable behaviour for
stuff you have deployed to such a platform.
The price for that is that pretty soon the versions of things supplied
are quite dated.
Anyway, qualify what "compatible" is supposed to mean for you.
--
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
in rec.moto, jsh wrote:
> Dan Nitschke wrote:
> > Ged Martin wrote:
> > > On Sat, 17 May 1997 16:53:33 +0000, Dan Nitschke scribbled:
> > > >(And you stay *out* of my dreams, you deviant little
> > > >weirdo.)
> > > Yeah, yeah, that's what you're saying in _public_....
> > Feh. You know nothing of my dreams. I dream entirely in text (New Century
> > Schoolbook bold oblique 14 point), and never in color. I once dreamed I
> > was walking down a flowchart of my own code, and a waterfall of semicolons
> > was chasing me. (I hid behind a global variable until they went by.)
> You write code in a proportional serif? No wonder you got extra
> semicolons falling all over the place.
No, I *dream* about writing code in a proportional serif font.
It's much more exciting than my real life.
/* dan: THE Anti-Ged -- Ignorant Yank (tm) #1, none-%er #7 */
Dan Nitschke peDA...@best.com nits...@redbrick.com
| <nicole...@gmail.com> declaimed the following in
| gmane.comp.python.general:
| > I would like know if Python 2.4.3 will be compatible with Linux RHEL 5.5 or 6.1?
It would help if you could qualify what you imagine "compatible with" to
mean...
On 19Nov2012 18:38, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlf...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
| Uhm...
| 1) Python 2.4.x is practically an antique. (I just updated my Windows
| machines to 2.7 from 2.5 -- and 2.7 will be the last 2.x version)
RHEL 5.x ships with python 2.4; a up to date RHEL 5.x box here has
2.4.3. I would not surprise me if that was what shipped with 5.0.
One feature if the RHEL distro is that it is _stable_. (See Dennis' point
(3)). They backport bugfixes and security fixes, but otherwise the base OS
doesn't change API. This produces reliable, predictable behaviour for
stuff you have deployed to such a platform.
The price for that is that pretty soon the versions of things supplied
are quite dated.
Anyway, qualify what "compatible" is supposed to mean for you.
--
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
in rec.moto, jsh wrote:
> Dan Nitschke wrote:
> > Ged Martin wrote:
> > > On Sat, 17 May 1997 16:53:33 +0000, Dan Nitschke scribbled:
> > > >(And you stay *out* of my dreams, you deviant little
> > > >weirdo.)
> > > Yeah, yeah, that's what you're saying in _public_....
> > Feh. You know nothing of my dreams. I dream entirely in text (New Century
> > Schoolbook bold oblique 14 point), and never in color. I once dreamed I
> > was walking down a flowchart of my own code, and a waterfall of semicolons
> > was chasing me. (I hid behind a global variable until they went by.)
> You write code in a proportional serif? No wonder you got extra
> semicolons falling all over the place.
No, I *dream* about writing code in a proportional serif font.
It's much more exciting than my real life.
/* dan: THE Anti-Ged -- Ignorant Yank (tm) #1, none-%er #7 */
Dan Nitschke peDA...@best.com nits...@redbrick.com
Steven D'Aprano
Nov 19, 2012, 8:33:11 PM11/19/12
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:44:37 -0800, EDI Support wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I would like know if Python 2.4.3 will be compatible with Linux RHEL
> 5.5 or 6.1?
I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be, but why would you want to use
> Hi All,
>
> I would like know if Python 2.4.3 will be compatible with Linux RHEL
> 5.5 or 6.1?
Python 2.4 in production if you don't have to? RHEL will come with Python
already installed, I believe it is Python 2.6.
It is *much* better to use Python 2.6 if you can: it is faster, has fewer
bugs, and more modern features.
But if you must use Python 2.4, make sure that you do NOT replace the
system Python already installed. If installing from source, use "make
altinstall" instead of "make install" to ensure that it doesn't overwrite
the system Python.
--
Steven
EDI Support
Nov 20, 2012, 8:58:16 AM11/20/12
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On Monday, November 19, 2012 11:44:37 AM UTC-5, EDI Support wrote:
> Hi All, I would like know if Python 2.4.3 will be compatible with Linux RHEL 5.5 or 6.1? Thanks Tony
Thanks everyone for your replies. To clarify, We would like to run a Proof of concept - that our current version 2.4.3 will run without any application or OS issues on RHEL 6.1.
> Hi All, I would like know if Python 2.4.3 will be compatible with Linux RHEL 5.5 or 6.1? Thanks Tony
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