I think the question was whether it was a "good idea" (tm) to alias python to python3 instead of python2. Then again, you can easily change the alias yourself... Sander On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "python2 will refer to some version of Python 2.x > python3 will refer to some version of Python 3.x > python should refer to the same target as python2 but may refer to > python3 on some bleeding edge distributions" > > above snippet taken from: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/