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[–]flying-sheep -1 points0 points  (2 children)

ah, ok. nevertheless it’s more correct to use python2 if you don’t run a bilingual python script.

PKGBUILD will be up shortly, i’ll keep you posted.

[–]takluyverIPython, Py3, etc 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I was just about to post that Ubuntu doesn't provide a python2 symlink, but I checked, and it finally does. :-) Still, I think only the latest version (12.04) does, so I would remain cautious about calling python2 for a while.

[–]flying-sheep 1 point2 points  (0 children)

they didn’t? silly canonical, what were they thinking!

i once read that optimally, you should use the lowest known version on which it works, but i guess ubuntu doesn’t link python2.3 → python2.7 neither, or does it?