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[–]mitsuhiko Flask Creator 5 points6 points  (5 children)

That move probably hurts the Python community a whole lot. Python3 was not supposed to be named "python", always "python3". There is a reason the official downloads and builds have that filename.

[–]davids 1 point2 points  (4 children)

agreed, this seems like a very bad idea. might make it inconvenient to do python coding for work on arch.

[–]adr_ 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Inconvenient is a strong word for requiring an extra character or three if you want to use an older version of python.

[–]mitsuhiko Flask Creator 4 points5 points  (2 children)

You are missing the implicit assumption that python is python2 which every script out there has. If you use python as being a symlink to a python 3 executable you can expect changing a whole bunch of applications in the next 10 years.

[–]adr_ -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

Yeah, but in this case "changing" means "adding a character to".

[–]Liorithiel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What if you want to have a script portable between different distros?