Can not update /remove and install python

[kiransharma755]

When I checked, my centos 6.6. has python 2.6.6 installed. It is not the latest. when I tries to remove it and reinstall, It seems that I could not remove it.


import sys
>>> print (sys.version)
2.6.6 (r266:84292, Jan 22 2014, 09:42:36)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4)]


Is that true that we can not remove the python that came with centos? are there system library also in python?

Thanks
Kiran

[gerald_clark]

Most of the system configuration and maintenance programs are written in python, so no, you cannot change it.

[kiransharma755]

Thanks.

[TrevorH]

Do not attempt to upgrade the system python or all the Redhat tools will break. No yum for example.

There are other repos that package a parallel installable python - IUS Community for example have python3* packages.