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[Python-Dev] Support the /usr/bin/python2 symlink upstream

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Mar 2 01:38:37 CET 2011 
On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:45:51 +0100
"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> >> I believe we agreed at the language summit last year (or maybe even the 
> >> year before) that "python" would always be python2.x, and "python3" 
> >> would be python3.x.
> >>
> >> And by "always" we indeed meant forever. To do otherwise would break 
> >> scripts even many, many years from now.
> > 
> > It sounds like the distributions aren't going to cooperate with us.
> > Arch has already switched.  Gentoo will allow the user to switch
> > /usr/bin/python to point to python3, and I suspect this will become
> > the default at some point.
> > 
> > I'm not sad about that, myself.
> 
> Neither am I. I personally also disagree with the decision taken at
> the language summit (and believe that the language summit is no place
> to make such decisions).

+1 with the latter.

Regards

Antoine.
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