Why Python 3?

[Bernd Waterkamp]

Michael Torrie schrieb:

> For example, RHEL 6 is Red Hat's most current enterprise distribution and
> it does not yet even ship Python 2.7, to say nothing of Python 3.  RHEL
> 7 has python 2.7 as the default system dependency, and currently does
> not yet have any python3 packages in the official main repo, 

python2.7 and python3.3 are availabe in "RedHat Software Collections":

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Software_Collections/1/html/1.0_Release_Notes/chap-RHSCL.html
http://developerblog.redhat.com/2014/02/18/migrate-to-python3-w-rhscl/

So there is at least a chance if you want to (or have to) use "official"
packages from the distributor. 

Regards, 
Bernd