Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal: Python means Python3

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On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 16:09:58 -0400, you wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 2:52 PM Dan Book <grinnz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> As an outsider to the Python community, not having any binary or package that responds to the expected name "python" would be a disaster.
>>
>Can you expand on that? As I understand it, most things that are
>calling for "python" now are expecting that to be "python2". So when
>it becomes "python3", they'll break anyway. So why perpetuate a
>pattern that's not future-proof (for some values of "proof")?

Because it's not about what some python code expects, it about what
the human being using Fedora expects.

Nobody trying to compile a C program expects to have to use gcc9, they
just expect to type in gcc.

Similarly someone sitting down to use a tutorial to learn Python is
going to expect to type python and get something they can use,
particularly going forward when Python3 really just become Python as
Python2 fades from memory.
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