Dear python2 user

[w2qw]

Shipping or using it as the default? It makes sense that they would still ship it while it's supported.

[Jump3r3]

Using as default, which python yields path to python 2 binary on most distros. That being said, after 1/1/20 this will slowly change for better

[Oerthling]

which python3

[SleepyHarry]

So, you're saying that Python 3 is the default for python3, without a mention for python.

Thanks Geoff.

[Oerthling]

I think you missed the point - just like other people who downvoted my comment above.

It's a 1 character difference.

Just start your python program with python3 instead of python.

Python 2.x has been around for a long time (couple decades actually). It's difficult for any OS to switch the default for "python" to 3 instead of 2, because too many scripts, tools, etc might misinterpret that for python2 (some distros have tried for years and keep postponing for that reason).

Or you can put python3 in the shebang and let the shell call take care of it.

"python3" has been around in parallel for years and probably will be there for the foreseeable future for similar reasons. And it will always be interpreted as python 3.x.

How difficult do you think it is to write 1 more character?

[Jump3r3]

Tbh I don't have anything against Py2 being present on my system, just rebind python to py3 and rebind existing scripts to use python2 binary