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by isostatic 2514 days ago
Which version of python?

Perl documentation online applys to versions of perl that are installed. Python stuff is all bleeding edge - you'll research why something isn't working and after 30 minutes find it's expecting python 3.7.

The whole concept of "virtualenv" gives me an impression of fragility I don't get with perl.

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Wanted to use Python 3 for some processing but the Sysadmin said that only Python 2 was available for that distributions version and "didn't want to frankenstein the box"
What about installing miniconda in your home folder?

How ancient is that system?

> What about installing miniconda in your home folder?

This is not how you deploy software

You are right, but I interpreted it as a one off manual task. I've used miniconda in that way.
Possibly CentOS, which requires python 2.7 even now.
RedHat EL5.

No matter, that system is going to be decommissioned and functions will go over to a new EL7 install.

It just stalls that project till the new server is ready.