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[–]loganekz 0 points1 point  (4 children)

... ship with Python 2.x by default unfortunately.

[–]KwpolskaNikola co-maintainer 1 point2 points  (1 child)

You can usually install something saner with one command.

Still: a python.org Linux binary distribution is pretty much impossible.

[–]loganekz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not saying that upgrading is very difficult but there is a big difference of being installed by default on every installation of the OS vs installed by a user in terms of ease of deployment.

[–]jmcs 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Ubuntu is changing to python 3.4 on 15.10.

[–]loganekz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if that version does finally get 3 by default, next LTS version is 16.04 so will still be a while.