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June 2018

Python and Linux Standard Base
by Charalampos Stratakis June 27, 2018

June 27, 2018

LSB (Linux Standard Base) is a set of standards defined from the Linux Foundation for linux distributions [0][1] with the latest version (LSB 5.0) released on 3rd of June, 2015. Python is also mentioned there but the information is horribly outdated [2]. For example here are the necessary modules that a python interpreter should include in an lsb compliant system [3] and the minimum python version should be 2.4.2. Also the python3 interpreter is never mentioned [4]. My question is, if there is any incentive to try and ask for modernization/amendment of the standards? I really doubt that any linux distro at that point can be considered lsb compliant at least from the python side of things. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base [1] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/lsb/lsb-50 [2] https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_5.0.0/LSB-Languages/LSB-Languages/… [3] https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_5.0.0/LSB-Languages/LSB-Languages/… [4] https://lsbbugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3677 -- Regards, Charalampos Stratakis Software Engineer Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat

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