Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 06:22:13 EST 2016

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2016-03-08 10:24 GMT+01:00 Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com>:
> The "py.exe" wrapper on Windows runs the latest Python version
> available on the user's PC, but it prefers Python 2 if the user has
> both Python 2 and 3 installed. With Python 3.5 being released, is it
> not about time that we switched that default to always prefer the
> latest version available?

On UNIX, it was decided to have python2 and python3 and don't guess
user expectations.

Why not providing an py3 runner which uses Python 3 by default?

Victor

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