you can fix this in two ways: a) relink /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python2.6 and use python2.7 only explicitly
b) create a file /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/python2.6.pth, with one line: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages (yes, that's /usr/lib even for 64bit machine) this way, you'll force python 2.7 interpreter to look for missing bits in python2.6 directories. applications with binary modules will still be broken and you'll need to run the old interpreter, but noarch applications should be ok.
c) Follow this http://www.rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/MultipleVersions and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/EnvironmentModules for a different way : i am using, not completed yet, mostly of this for having python 2.7 AND python 2.4 in RHEL5 as asked from a my client. Regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org