1 About Python

Python is a high-level general purpose programming language that relies on an interpreter to fulfill scripted functions. On Oracle Linux 9, many system utilities, tools for data analysis and web applications rely on the presence of a Python runtime environment to function.

Python 2 is no longer maintained by the Python community; Python 2 is also not supported or available on Oracle Linux 9. Any existing Python 2 scripts must be migrated to Python 3 or run inside a container. For more information about running scripts inside containers, see Oracle Linux: Podman User's Guide.

You can read more information about creating Python scripts at https://www.python.org/doc/.

Note:

Unversioned Python commands are aliased to Python 3.9 by default in Oracle Linux 9.

For more information, see Installing Python.