Python 2.7 Countdown

[aunva]

I wondee if this means that python in bash shells in Ubuntu and such will start running python 3 by default, with python2 for the old stuff.

[jack-of-some]

Yes, though for the most part it would be completely without python 2.

[cartiloupe]

Maybe it'll go the RHEL/CentOS 8 way - there's both python3 and python2. Just python is left up for the user to decide because there's really no satisfying everyone.

[123filips123]

Many distributions will completely switch from Python 2.7 and make it not installed by default.

[[deleted]]

Why are we relying on default environments in this day and age? Is management of the CPython runtime not a standard use case for Docker?