Has Red Hat helped or hurt?

[John Baxter]

In article <mailman.1020835276.10695.python-list at python.org>,
 Roman Suzi <rnd at onego.ru> wrote:

> It's better to know if RedHat configuration tools can be run
> under Python 2.x. Has anybody done any tests on this?

Not without the rand module, for those tools which use it.

Most of the tools break badly under 2.x

Even some things that don't feel like tools, such as printing, broke in 
some RH releases if python didn't mean 1.5.2 (I didn't care much, so I 
couldn't print for several weeks once on the Linux "side" of the 
laptop...then a chance message in a mailing list fixed the printing 
problem for me).  I think printing in recent RH has now changed enough 
that this issue is gone.

  --John