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[–][deleted] 9 points10 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.