There is an excellent post by Guido here, Hilton: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-February/011910.html Guido seems to favor using /usr/bin/python3.0 or /usr/bin/python3 and /usr/bin/python as symlinks to the respective versions of Python. 'Perhaps we should only install "python3.0" and not "python".' We're not here to discussion semantics ofc. :) There is a much broader concern which I hope we can address through friendly discourse. On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Hilton Medeiros <medeiros.hilton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
