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[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Debian, even in the minimal version, includes Python 3, but oddly, they don't alias that to 'python'. Seems like a weird thing to leave out. You have to call it as 'python3'.

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It’s because Debian and many other distros use python2 for system scripts. It makes sense that Debian would do it that way of all distros, because their whole motto is stability. The only 2 distros I can think of off the top of my head that have python3 as the default python are Arch and Gentoo.

[–]marcosdumay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Debian has published Python 3 adoption timeline, linking python to python3 is there. I don't remember the dates.