Python 1.5.x vs Python 2.x.x

[Paul Rubin]

Fernando Pérez <fperez528 at yahoo.com> writes:
> For some bizarre reason, redhat 7.2 includes two versions of pyhton with 1.5 
> being the default. 

The reason may be that some of the red hat configuration scripts were
written under python 1.5, and 2.1 broke backwards compatibility.
In particular the "rand" module was renamed "random" and maybe changed.