[isostatic]

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.

[jsymolon]

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"

[mkl]

What about installing miniconda in your home folder?

How ancient is that system?

[isostatic]

> What about installing miniconda in your home folder?

This is not how you deploy software

[mkl]

You are right, but I interpreted it as a one off manual task. I've used miniconda in that way.

[Izkata]

Possibly CentOS, which requires python 2.7 even now.

[jsymolon]

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.