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		moreati on Dec 2, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Improving Your Python Productivity To make you feel a bit better - some of us are still on RHEL 5 and Python 2.4. Yes it is painful.

cyann on Dec 3, 2012 [–]

You can find python26 in EPEL [1] or follow this guide [2] to setup 2.7. This will install 2.6 or 2.7 in parallel, do not set these by default as it will break yum.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Python26

[2] http://villaroad.com/2010/10/rolling-python-2-6-2-on-centos-...

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