Note: This version of the VDT (1.10.0) is no longer supported. Feel free to look through the documentation and install it, but we cannot guarantee support for it. The current stable release is 2.0.0.

Python

When is Python installed by the VDT?

Whenever possible, the VDT tries to use the Python binaries already installed on your system. However, sometimes that is not possible or highly inefficient. In those cases the VDT installs and uses a copy of Python instead.

PyGlobus/PyGridWare

PyGlobus requires a complete install of Python >= 2.3. If your Python install is incomplete (usually missing the python-dev package) or too old the VDT Python will be installed and added to the path.