Python 2.7 may be installed from Software Collections 1.0 for SL6:

http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1309&L=scientific-linux-devel&T=0&P=501

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From a terminal application within gnome, my default Python is:
>
> [ykarant@jb344 ~]$ python
> Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Feb 21 2013, 19:26:11)
> [GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>
>
> despite having to install whatever the BlueGriffon build required.
>
> A number of the responses concerning the build of BlueGriffon further
> underscore the general lack of polymorphism and encapsulation in the Linux
> environment as distributed.  In a proper modern OS environment, an
> application that requires non-system versions of applications (other than
> the core libraries required by the OS itself, a more daunting problem) would
> have only these in the path of both the building steps and during the
> execution of the built application, preferably still allowing a dynamic
> rather than a static image of the built application.
>
> Yasha Karant
>
>
> On 10/15/2013 12:06 AM, Steven J. Yellin wrote:
>>
>>      Python2.7 can be installed in, say, /usr/local/..., while leaving
>> 2.6 (or for SL5, 2.4) as the default version.  When you then need to use
>> version 2.7 there may be some pain with libraries, but perhaps not too
>> much to endure.
>>
>> Steven Yellin
>>
>> On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>
>>> I took a look a thte Fedora SRPM's, which unfortunately ended about 3
>>> years
>>> ago with a very out of date release. The current release requires Python
>>> 2.7, which is begging for pain to install on an SL 6 system.
>>>
>>> SL 7 should be much more compatible with current releases.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 10/14/2013 04:20 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 10/14/2013 04:18 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I now have built from source BlueGriffon for X86-64 SL6x, version
>>>>>> 1.7.2.99.20130729, Build 20131013142156, Codename 'Cla-de-Lue'
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can provide detailed instructions or just a copy of both the
>>>>>> mozconfig
>>>>>> file used for the build and the typescript of the building.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have had to add a few RPMs to SL6x from other distributions.  There
>>>>>> was a query on a different thread (same general topic, but a different
>>>>>> subject line) as to why I used a 5x CentOS RPM for one of the
>>>>>> dependencies of the build.  I could not find a 6x EL version.  The
>>>>>> application was not a systems application that would
>>>>>> overwrite/override
>>>>>> other files, and seemed to be constrained with a unique
>>>>>> identifier.  My
>>>>>> experience is that many EL 5 and even EL 4 applications still "work"
>>>>>> with EL 6, as did this.  Presumably, if the EL 6 version is available,
>>>>>> that too would work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yasha Karant
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Do you have a place to download the RPM?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I have the full directory as well as the built files -- but the source
>>>> code did not come with any obvious configuration/script software to
>>>> build a
>>>> RPM.  Moreover, I do not have the personnel resources to support this
>>>> application for future updates, although I expect that the steps that
>>>> I did
>>>> will work for such updates.
>>>>
>>>> I have not built this for the IA-32 platform, only X86-64.  Is anyone
>>>> with
>>>> an IA-32 SL6x development system willing to repeat the exercise to
>>>> produce
>>>> an IA-32 platform version?
>>>>
>>>> Can you supply the necessary information to build a RPM as well as
>>>> properly specify dependencies?
>>>>
>>>> Yasha Karant
>>>>
>>>
>