[atlas] RIPE Atlas Tools and Python versions

On 9/23/15 2:30 PM, Daniel Quinn wrote:
> [...]
>
>     Of those of you who would find such a tool interesting/useful, how
>     many of you *only* have access to a computer running Python 2.6?
>
> Such systems include CentOS distributions earlier than 7,
>

which apparently includes RIPE NCC machines:

    $ uname -a
    Linux bastion1.hdp1.ripe.net 2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed
    Jan 28 21:11:36 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
    $ whereis python
    python: /usr/bin/python2.6-config /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/python
    /usr/lib/python2.6 /usr/lib64/python2.6 /usr/include/python2.6
    /opt/virtualenv/bin/python2.6 /opt/virtualenv/bin/python
    /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz
    $ /usr/bin/python -V
    Python 2.6.6

bastion1 is a number crunching front end to hadoop, a place where I run 
Atlas related jobs.

Before dropping support for 2.6, can you guys ensure/coordinate 2.7 is 
available there?

Thanks,

-- Rene

> and corresponding RedHat Enterprise systems. If you’re using Debian, 
> or Ubuntu, you should already have 2.7 by default, and if you’re on 
> Gentoo or Arch, you probably have both 2.7 and 3.5 already. I 
> understand that Apple’s OSX is running 2.7 these days as well.
>
> If I don’t get a wave of messages about how very important 2.6 is to 
> your collective health and wellbeing, I’m going to consider this a 
> non-issue and drop support for 2.6.
>
> Thanks for your input everyone :-)
>
> ​