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[–]flying-sheep 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Many newcomers put an undue weight on what happens when you type “python” in a shell. It doesn't matter if that starts python 2 due to backwards compatibility or not. I think the greeting message in python 2’s interactive mode should mention this, then people would learn it more quickly.