Hello!

Thank you very much for providing this feedback.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is distributed with Python 3.6. The package is not installed by default. To install Python 3.6, use the yum install python3 command.

Python 2.7 is available in the python2 package. However, Python 2 will have a shorter life cycle and its aim is to facilitate smoother transition to Python 3 for customers. 

For more information about using Python in RHEL 8, please see this documentation:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8-beta/html/configuring_basic_system_settings/using-python3


Unfortunately, I am not able to answer your question how this fact influences the languages in which particular components are written.

Honza and Charalampos, please could you help to answer this question?

Thank you!

Marie

So as far as I understand it, the question can be rephrased to "If no python is installed by default, how are system components written in python, able to function?".

This question can be seen answered here: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/11/14/python-in-rhel-8/ at the platform-python section.

This is also mentioned briefly here: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8-beta/html-single/configuring_basic_system_settings/#the_internal_platform_python_package

The main distinction is that system tools use a different interpreter than the one intended to be used directly by customers/users.

Do we need to make that distinction clear in the release notes somehow? Petr what would you think?

(In reply to Charalampos Stratakis from comment #3)
> So as far as I understand it, the question can be rephrased to "If no python
> is installed by default, how are system components written in python, able
> to function?".
> 
> This question can be seen answered here:
> https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/11/14/python-in-rhel-8/ at the
> platform-python section.
> 
> This is also mentioned briefly here:
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8-
> beta/html-single/configuring_basic_system_settings/
> #the_internal_platform_python_package
> 
> The main distinction is that system tools use a different interpreter than
> the one intended to be used directly by customers/users.
> 
> Do we need to make that distinction clear in the release notes somehow? Petr
> what would you think?

Charalampos, thanks a lot for providing these useful sources of information.

> Do we need to make that distinction clear in the release notes somehow? Petr what would you think?

Oh, I missed that question!

I don't think this particular detail needs to go in the Release Notes. A more authoritative place for it than the blog post would be somewhat nice to have, but I'm OK with the current state of things.

Thanks a lot for your feedback. No further action needed from the docs perspective.

Thus, I am closing this bug.