Dockerfile to create Centos Latest with Python 3.7.1 (working as of 11/24/2018)

Dockerfile

FROM centos:latest

# ensure local python is preferred over distribution python
ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH

# http://bugs.python.org/issue19846
# > At the moment, setting "LANG=C" on a Linux system *fundamentally breaks Python 3*, and that's not OK.
ENV LANG en_US.utf8

RUN yum -y update && yum -y groupinstall development
RUN yum -y install \
  vim \
  git \
  expat-devel \
  openssl-devel \
  zlib.devel \
  gdbm-devel \
  uuid-devel \
  xz-devel \
  ncurses-devel \
  sqlite-devel \
  readline-devel \
  libffi-devel

ENV GPG_KEY 0D96DF4D4110E5C43FBFB17F2D347EA6AA65421D
ENV PYTHON_VERSION 3.7.1
ENV LD_RUN_PATH /usr/local/lib

RUN set -ex \
	\
	&& curl -o python.tar.xz "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz" \
	&& curl -o python.tar.xz.asc "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz.asc" \
	&& export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)" \
	&& gpg --batch --keyserver ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys "$GPG_KEY" \
	&& gpg --batch --verify python.tar.xz.asc python.tar.xz \
	&& { command -v gpgconf > /dev/null && gpgconf --kill all || :; } \
	&& rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME" python.tar.xz.asc \
	&& mkdir -p /usr/src/python \
	&& tar -xJC /usr/src/python --strip-components=1 -f python.tar.xz \
	&& rm python.tar.xz \
	\
	&& cd /usr/src/python \
	&& gnuArch="$(uname -p)" \
	&& ./configure \
		--build="$gnuArch" \
		--enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions \
		--enable-shared \
		--with-system-expat \
		--with-system-ffi \
		--without-ensurepip \
	&& make -j "$(nproc)" \
	&& make install \
	&& ldconfig \
	\
	&& find /usr/local -depth \
		\( \
			\( -type d -a \( -name test -o -name tests \) \) \
			-o \
			\( -type f -a \( -name '*.pyc' -o -name '*.pyo' \) \) \
		\) -exec rm -rf '{}' + \
	&& rm -rf /usr/src/python \
	\
	&& python3 --version

# make some useful symlinks that are expected to exist
RUN cd /usr/local/bin \
	&& ln -s idle3 idle \
	&& ln -s pydoc3 pydoc \
	&& ln -s python3 python \
	&& ln -s python3-config python-config

# if this is called "PIP_VERSION", pip explodes with "ValueError: invalid truth value '<VERSION>'"
ENV PYTHON_PIP_VERSION 18.1

RUN set -ex; \
	\
	curl -o get-pip.py 'https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py'; \
	\
	python get-pip.py \
		--disable-pip-version-check \
		--no-cache-dir \
		"pip==$PYTHON_PIP_VERSION" \
	; \
	pip --version; \
	\
	find /usr/local -depth \
		\( \
			\( -type d -a \( -name test -o -name tests \) \) \
			-o \
			\( -type f -a \( -name '*.pyc' -o -name '*.pyo' \) \) \
		\) -exec rm -rf '{}' +; \
	rm -f get-pip.py

COPY . /root
WORKDIR /root
CMD ["/bin/bash"]