cassandra 2.2 CQl Shell supports python 2.7

Question

Error I am get when trying to start cql Shell

>cqlsh
CQL Shell supports only Python 2.7
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I have installed python2.7 but it is still givi

Answer 1

Not enough rep to post as a comment. If you encounter same problem as @andrewdeal and you installed Python 2.7 side-by-side (a must on CentOS 6 which requires Python 2.6), you need site-packages in your Python 2.7 install.

As root:

rm /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/README
rmdir /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ /usr/local/lib/python2.7

You can now run cqlsh