> On Sat, 30 Jul 2016, P. Larry Nelson wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Please don't shoot the questioner (me), as I have no experience with
>> Python, other than knowing "what" it is and that my SL6.8 systems have
>> version 2.6.6 installed.
>>
>> I have been asked by one of our Professors that one of his grad students
>> apparently needs Python 2.7.x installed on our cluster (optimally in
>> /usr/local, which is an NFS mounted dir everywhere).
>
>
>> If the solution is indeed simple, I might proceed, otherwise, I'm
>> of a tendency to reply to the Professor and student, "No way - won't work."
>> I think the student probably has access to CERN systems that probably
>> have what he's looking for.
>
> I see that Larry's requirement may have gone away, but for others
> with the same request:
>
> The slc6-scl "Software Collections Library" repo has a suite of packages
> python27-* which can be installed alongside the system python 2.6.
>
> They also have python33-* although those who want python3 may
> want bleeding edge which is, IIRC, 3.4.something.
> (Hmm bleeding edge is 3.6.0a3, latest is 3.5.2).
>

Also in SL software collections via

ftp://sldist.fnal.gov/linux/scientific/6x/external_products/softwarecollections/yum-conf-softwarecollections-1.0-1.el6.noarch.rpm