This is an old revision of the document!
A fairly complete python 2.6.5 installation is available on both the login and compute nodes, at
/opt/gridware/python2.6.5/bin/python
I recommend you invoke your python scripts by explicitly invoking python as above — for example:
/opt/gridware/python2.6.5/bin/python /export/home/username/bin/myscript.py
Modules included with this are :-
Most of these modules invoke low-level C and Fortran to do the heavy lifting.