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Comment by josteink | Hacker News Reader

Because Red Hat 8 by default ships without an explicit default python version.

See the discussion for the Red Hat 8 release a few days back. It was extensively debated and covered there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19848965

This doesn't have anything to do with the discussion of Python application streams. The linked blog post contains a table of UBI 7 images that includes python-27 and python-36, and a table of UBI 8 images that only includes python-27.

I think the table is misleadingly presented as comprehensive ("the set of container images"). If you follow the "RHEL 8 How To" link at the bottom of the page, you'll find a larger table that indeed includes python-36. It doesn't seem to be usable out of the box, but I was able to pull it with Docker:

        $ docker pull registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/python-36

Now I need to read up on S2I and podman.

Edit: not sure what I did wrong the first time, but it does work fine in Docker:

        $ docker run --rm -it registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/python-36 python
        Python 3.6.8 (default, Apr  3 2019, 17:26:03)
        [GCC 8.2.1 20180905 (Red Hat 8.2.1-3)] on linux
        Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
        >>>

The exclusion of python36 from the UBI8 table is a mistake. I am working on getting it updated.

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