On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:58:42 -0400 Max Countryman <maxc@xxxxxx> wrote: > That is fine unless the Python development team has decide that > python3 will not become python. > > Python 2.7.x will be maintained for quite some time. (In excess of > four more years.) Even after it is dropped in the future there's no > indication that the python3 binary is intended to become the python > binary. > > The link I posted earlier to the thread on the Python mailing list > seems to indicate the opposite. A 'python' binary doesn't and won't ever exist, it is only a symlink, Max.
