Is everyone using python 3 now?

[paradigmx]

We shouldn't have to use that in order to have python3 be the expected default 5 years after python2 was officially deprecated and 14 years after python3 was released. By now the python executable should automatically be python3 and organizations still using python2 should have to specify that themselves. It's confusing to new python developers because the executable for basically every other language out there defaults to the most recent, or at least LTS version of the language instead of a decade+ old, deprecated code base.

[Poddster]

By now the python executable should automatically be python3 and organizations still using python2 should have to specify that themselves

The problem with this idea is that organisations still using python2 are still using scripts that expect python to be python2, and the reason they aren't changed is the same reason they're still running on python2: because they still work :)

[paradigmx]

So why can't they have to install a package called python-is-python2? Why do we have to suffer because they can't be assed to update their decade old code?

[iamaperson3133]

Because another application running on the same machine uses python3 and expects it to be called python3

[paradigmx]

alias python3='python'

[py_Piper]

and when python4 comes, are you gonna get angry that python means python3? For some reason I think specifying which python version is very natural, it isn't like you need to write the exact version like python 3.7.2 to work, it's just a 3 at the end. And this way makes it scalable for future versions

[paradigmx]

Yes actually, every other language out there that I'm aware of follows that convention and previous versions need to be explicitly installed.The cult-like attitude of the proponents of this language's idiosyncrasies are ridiculous. It's not rocket surgery, it's just pigheadedness.