500692 - Upgrade python on khan to at least 2.5

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

There has been talk of upgrading python but I'm not sure what the status is.  I searched for a bug but came up with nothing so I'm filing this one.

We need at least python 2.5 to use the silme library for some stuff with AMO.  I don't know the status of other projects though so if this was installed parallel with 2.4 it would be fine with me (we've done parallel installs of 2.3 and 2.4 before).

I expect to file a bug to upgrade python on the AMO cluster sometime in mid July when we are ready to start pushing these changes out.

Comment 1

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

If we can get to 2.6 we can at least keep ourselves up to date - alot of new things are in 2.6 that aren't backward compatible in 2.5 that I'd like to have the option of using.

If only to get us writing 3.0 compatible code when possible.

Comment 2

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

Dave, Wil,

I've put in python-2.6.2 on Khan. 

The system still has Python 2.4 to make sure the RHEL stuff that depends on Python doesn't break. So to use 2.6, you'd run python26 as shown :

# python
Python 2.4.3 (#1, Sep 17 2008, 16:04:01) 
[GCC 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-41)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 

# python26 
Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Jun  1 2009, 20:55:03) 
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

Lemme know if you need anything else.

Comment 3

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Thanks Shyam.