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

[Greg L. <gre...@gm...>]

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

> On 09/14/2017 10:43 AM, Greg Landrum wrote:
>
> > Just to do some expectation management: python 2.6 is pretty ancient and
> > there's no guarantee that all of the RDKit code will work with it. Python
> > 2.7 is the minimum version that we "officially" support. It's a very good
> > idea to update.
>
> 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.


Yep, but it's not supported by the python community (and hasn't been since
2013).
Newer versions of the RDKit no longer require backwards compatibility with
python 2.6. If you are stuck with an old version of Python, you may well be
stuck with an old version of the RDKit.

-greg