Re: [Rdkit-discuss] ImportError: No module named rdkit

[Riccardo V. <ric...@gm...>]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 7:26 PM, Dimitri Maziuk <dm...@bm...>
wrote:

> Just FYI: python 2.6 is the system python on (at least) RHEL-6 family of
> linux distros that will be officially with us until June 30, 2024.
>

True, but there shouldn't be any strong need for using the system python
for running application software. Python 2.7 (together with python 3) has
been available to RHEL6 subscribers since almost five years, as part of the
Red Hat Software Collections (also available to non-subscribers from the
upstream CentOS/Fedora repositories). A detailed discussion is available
from this post
http://www.curiousefficiency.org/posts/2015/04/stop-supporting-python26.html

And the anaconda python distribution of course provides another alternative.

--Riccardo