# Is Python 2.7 supported as control machine?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-python-2-7-supported-as-control-machine/18040>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [April 21, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-python-2-7-supported-as-control-machine/18040 "2015-04-21T17:32:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hiroaki\_Nakamura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e480ec/32.png) [@Hiroaki\_Nakamura](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Hiroaki_Nakamura)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-python-2-7-supported-as-control-machine/18040/1 "2015-04-21T17:32:01Z")

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Hi, all.

Is Python 2.7 supported as control machine?

[http://docs.ansible.com/intro\_installation.html#control-machine-requirements](http://docs.ansible.com/intro_installation.html#control-machine-requirements)  
says:

> Currently Ansible can be run from any machine with Python 2.6 installed (Windows isn’t supported for the control machine).

Should we modify "Python 2.6" to "Python 2.6 or later" here?  
If only Python 2.6 is supported, I think we should add "(Python 2.7 is  
not supported)".

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-python-2-7-supported-as-control-machine/18040/2 "2015-04-21T17:33:33Z")

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yes, 2.6 and 2.7, soon even 3.x once v2 is out

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**Author:** ![Toshio\_Kuratomi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Toshio\_Kuratomi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Toshio_Kuratomi)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-python-2-7-supported-as-control-machine/18040/3 "2015-04-21T17:56:41Z")

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s/once v2 is out/at some point after v2 is out/ 🙂

We've been merging patches to allow this but I'm not yet sure that  
we'll have them finished before we release 2.0.0

-Toshio

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**Author:** ![Hiroaki\_Nakamura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e480ec/32.png) [@Hiroaki\_Nakamura](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Hiroaki_Nakamura)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-python-2-7-supported-as-control-machine/18040/4 "2015-04-21T18:04:38Z")

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> > yes, 2.6 and 2.7, soon even 3.x once v2 is out

I've sent a pull request.

"Add Python 2.7 to Conrol Machine Requirements in docsite by hnakamur  
· Pull Request #10806 · ansible/ansible"  
[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/10806](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/10806)