Python 3

[pruhster]

One of the main reasons I chose hostgator was because it offered Python.
I was disappointed to find out that the server has python 2.4.3 installed, which is quite an outdated version (2005?).
Python 3 has been out for quite a while now (already up to 3.1.1) and offers a lot of improvements and is much easier to work with.

Whenever I ask about it (either in chat or e-mail support) I get answers like "we don't have plans either to provide it or not to provide it". Well why don't you at least consider it?

[robacarp]

Ditto.

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[GatorFord]

We are awaiting cPanel to integrate their backend applications to use Python 3 fully. At this point Mailman and other backend cPanel scripts run with Python 2.4.x and we have not yet received any official reports that it works properly in Python 3 yet. Once cPanel has shown that their applications will work properly with Python 3 we should be able to get this installed as the default version of Python.

[whitespace]

yep, please upgrade to Python 3!

[rehnstromer]

Any news on this?

[chris.darby]

Yes, have there been any changes/updates in this regard? Thank you.

[kolinnpush]

I am selecting a list of date strings from a mysql database of the format "d%m%y:%H:%M" but there is some a small minority of strings coming through that are of a different form. What I want to do is check if the string is of the form "d%m%y:%H:%M" and if it is then execute a few commands but if it isnt of that form then set the string as null.
So,
if string == date_format:
execute
else:
string = NULL
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[phgamer]

So whats happening with Python 3? any chance of it coming around on the servers?

[GatorDavid]

Originally Posted by phgamer

So whats happening with Python 3? any chance of it coming around on the servers?

I've got python3.1.2 on the boxes going forward from now on. Submit a ticket to support@hostgator.com to get it installed on your server. Thanks!

Edit: Note that common modules such as Django, flup, and mysqldb are not compatible with Python 3. I recommend that you use Python 2.4 or Python 2.6 for web use.

[GatorCarl]

Also, python 2.6.5 is available. Please use the following path for the interpreter.

/usr/local/bin/python26

[janicemcnear]

Originally Posted by GatorFord

We are awaiting cPanel to integrate their backend applications to use Python 3 fully. At this point Mailman and other backend cPanel scripts run with Python 2.4.x and we have not yet received any official reports that it works properly in Python 3 yet. Once cPanel has shown that their applications will work properly with Python 3 we should be able to get this installed as the default version of Python.

cPanel already has a version cPanel 3 VPS optimized maybe this one has Python 3 support.

[GatorDavid]

Originally Posted by janicemcnear

cPanel already has a version cPanel 3 VPS optimized maybe this one has Python 3 support.

It's highly unlikely- cPanel's philosophy is to not change anything that diverges from CentOS's default repos. CentOS 6 (currently in development, slated for release by maybe the end of this year) gets its core packages from upstream (RHEL 6- currently in beta) which if I am correct, is using Python 2.6. So at the earliest, we will see cPanel supporting Python 3.0 in CentOS 7/RHEL 7 (maybe 2013-ish at the earliest). This isn't a guarantee, and it could be as late as CentOS 8 or 9 before we ever see Python 3.0 incorporated into mainstream, which means the second half of this decade for cPanel support.