Re: [Mailman-Users] Jump from Python 2.4 to 2.7...

On 03/02/2015 01:56 PM, Laura Creighton wrote:

I have been away. I get to this discussion late, and so sorry if this has been mentioned, but

YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST NOT CHANGE YOUR CENTOS SYSTEM PYTHON 2.4.3 OR YOU WILL BREAK YOUR WHOLE PACKAGING SYSTEM!

Quite true. I found this out the hard way a long time ago. Yum depends on various other 'site-packages' modules which IIRC would not work on Python newer than 2.4.x I gave up. That's why the default Python on my CentOS 5 server is 2.4.3, even though there is a python2.7 invoking python 2.7.9 and most everything that I install that uses Python is configured to use python2.7.