

During development, support might not seem that important to you. This article uses Red Hat Software Collections because these give you a current Python installation that is built and supported by Red Hat. There are a number of different ways to get Python 3 installed on RHEL. Other tips and FAQs for working with Python and software collections on RHEL 7 are also covered. Using Python virtual environments is a best practice to isolate project-specific dependencies and create reproducible environments.

Note: For RHEL 8 installs, See Python on RHEL 8.

After following the steps in this article, you should be in a good position to follow many Python guides and tutorials using RHEL. This article shows how to install Python 3, pip, venv, virtualenv, and pipenv on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
