[Python-Dev] Python 3 as a Default in Linux Distros (original) (raw)

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Wed Jul 24 21:27:16 CEST 2013

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:42:09PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:

On Jul 25, 2013, at 01:41 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

>How's this for an updated wording in the abstract: > > * for the time being, all distributions should ensure that python >refers to the same target as python2 > * however, users should be aware that python refers to python3 on at >least Arch Linux (that change is > what prompted the creation of this PEP), so "python" should be >used in the shebang line only for > scripts that are source compatible with both Python 2 and 3 +1 +1 as well. Much clearer.

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