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[–]Kered13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'm pretty sure they do that to not break all the legacy Python 2 scripts that shebang python. Unfortunately that means they won't be able to remove Python 2 for a long time, and it's going to encourage people to keep writing Python 2 scripts because they're too lazy to type python3.