Python 2.7 End of Life - CentOS
https://forums.centos.org/viewtopic.php?t=7350904.04.2020 · Code: Select all. sudo yum install python3. There are couple other packages too, see 'sudo yum list python3-*'. Then port your own codebase to use python 3.6, and if you have 'python' in shebangs, then change them to 'python3'. The system must have the 2.7 for the entire lifetime of CentOS 7, because critical components (like yum) depend on it ...
Python 2.7 End of Life - CentOS
forums.centos.org › viewtopicFeb 18, 2020 · Think positive: upstream python-2.6.6 did vanish, cease to exist, on June 2011. CentOS 6 still has python "2.6.6" and will have it to November 2020. Latest security fix to "dead" python in CentOS 6 was in June 2019. Eight years after upstream said: "no more ".