GOTCHA with list comprehension

[Pavel S]

Hi Chris, yeah, I have to stick on the software which my employer provides to me (we're enterprise company). I'm not root on that system. I'm happy with 2.6 now, two years ago we were on older RHEL with python 2.4 and it was a real pain :)

> > $ cat /etc/redhat-release
> > Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)
> > $ python --version
> > Python 2.6.6
> >
> >> Incidentally, why Python 2.6?
> >>
> 
> I guess that would be why :)
> 
> That's probably actually a patched 2.6.6 - from what I understand of
> how Red Hat works, the version number is the number of the *oldest*
> part of the code, so that quite possibly has a lot of backported
> fixes. When I said 2.6 was out of support, I meant from python.org;
> Red Hat supports stuff for a lot longer.
> 
> So, yeah, perfectly good reason for sticking with 2.6. For now. :)
> 
> ChrisA