[CentOS] Need Python3 for C6

[Elias Persson]

On 2014-04-25 19:27, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> I need Python 3.4 (latest) on CentOS 6 for development purposes
> (teaching programming).
>
> Need advice for best method to do this. I am concerned about not
> breaking the internal plumbing of C6. I was thinking about installing
> it into /opt.
>
> I noticed  http://puias.math.ias.edu/data/puias/computational  has 3.3
> but I need 3.4 (asyncio module). Wondering if anyone has tried python3
> from puias repo ? Does it break anything?
>
> Also, found http://toomuchdata.com/2014/02/16/how-to-install-python-on-centos/
>
> Any advice welcome.
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python 3.3 is available in software collections [1].
Works quite well, is easy enough to use.
If you absolutely must have python 3.4, I don't know.

asyncio for python33 is available on pypi [2].
Don't know if this is exactly compatible with 3.4 though.

[1] https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/
[2] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/asyncio