Do you have any links to share about building python from source?
And is it safe to assume that if I build python from source and put it
inside of a venv, when I submit to grid it'll use my python for the job?
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 10:12 PM Roy Smith <roy(a)panix.com> wrote:
I don't know if it's generally available yet,
but I've been
using tools-sgebastion-11, which is running Debian Buster with Python 3.7.
On the other hand, I don't actually use the system Python. Quite a while
ago, before the Buster machine was available, I built Python 3.7 from
source and I've been using that. It sounds scary, but it's not really.
Building from source can be a nightmare, but on the Debian boxes it's
nothing more than downloading the tarball, running "configure" and
"make"
and waiting for that to finish. If you've done that kind of thing before,
it's a reasonable way to go, but it's not for everybody.
Of course, at this point, even 3.7 is pretty old. At some point, I'll
probably break down and build 3.9. I really want the better f-strings that
came out in 3.8.
On Sep 26, 2021, at 9:43 PM, Huji Lee <huji.huji(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
When I run python3 --version on Toolforge I see version 3.5.3 is
installed. Because python 3.5 reached the end of its life in September
2020, pip is really unhappy about that.
Is there a way to use a later version of python3 on Toolforge? If not, are
there plans to upgrade the OS and upgrade python with it?
PS: I know from Help:Toolforge/Python
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Python> that 3.7.3 is
available on Kubernetes, but I am dealing with scripts that are submitted
via jsub and not k8s, and the overhead of converting them is prohibitive.
Thanks!
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