python 2.6: Need some advise for installing modules on a legacy system

[Dan Stromberg]

You also could try getting the modules (of suitable versions) you need from
their homepage, possibly github, and then use the setup.py to install your
packages.  pypi usually has a link to a project's homepage.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 6:08 AM Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I don't think pip supports 2.x anymore.
>
> You might be able to:
> 1) Look up what versions of your desired modules support Python 2.x on
> pypi's website
> 2) Install them on another system that has Python 3.x using pip
> 3) Copy them to the moribund system
> 4) Test
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 5:15 AM Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon at vub.be>
> wrote:
>
>> I need to do some development on this legacy system. It only runs
>> python2.6 and there is little hope of installing an other version. How
>> can I best proceed to install modules for working with mysql and ldap?
>>
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