[Tutor] Your thoughts on using Python 2.4.x?

[boB Stepp]

At my workplace we have nearly completed the hardware and software
upgrades. Up to this point I have been using Perl to write scripts
that work with our planning software which has its own proprietary
scripting environment. Generally speaking the scripts I write are
always text files which run Solaris commands and/or create reload
script files in the proprietary scripting format. Until our recent
upgrades Perl was the best option; Python did not exist on our
systems. Now after the upgrades some machines now have Python 2.4.4
and others Python 2.4.6. For the purposes of creating/manipulating
text files and running Solaris-flavored Unix commands, is there
anything I should be specially aware of? I have been working entirely
in my Python studies with version 3.x up to this point. I understand
that there are differences between 2.x versus 3.x such as print
statements versus print functions, etc. BTW, does 2.4.x come with
Tkinter standard?

In case anyone has the thought that I should upgrade to a more recent
version of Python at work, bear in mind that these are medical
software systems that come with FDA compliant certification. I
probably could get permission to upgrade, but only if I could
demonstrate a compelling need, which at this time I would deem highly
unlikely.

Thanks!
boB