python 2.5 or 2.6

[Luke Macken]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 05:04:28PM -0700, Kyle VanderBeek wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Martin-Louis Bright <mlbright at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > Does anyone know if/when python 2.5 or 2.6 will be included in RHEL? python
> > 2.4 is certainly solid, but I'm trying to run fabric and it requires at
> > least 2.5
> >
> 
> In general, you're not going to see that major of an upgrade in RHEL.  Every
> python related package would have to be upgraded at the same time, and
> that'd go against RHEL's stability goals.
> 
> I'd encourage you to lean on the fabric folks to support 2.4 (which is
> really quite easy for the most part, other than the new try/except/finally
> that showed up in 2.5).

The thing that bites me the most in Python 2.4 is the datetime module.

Since Python2.4's datetime module doesn't have a strptime method, like:

    datetime.strptime('06-09-2009', '%m-%d-%Y')

I end up having to do something like:

    datetime(*time.strptime('06-09-2009', '%m-%d-%Y')[:-2])

luke