Re:Python Versions Used in Commercial Projects, 2016 Edition
by juriansluiman on Friday November 11, 2016 @08:35AM
(#12930433)
Afaik, it has nothing to do with Ubuntu or any other Linux distro specifically, but this is rather a choice from python itself. See PEP394 [1]:
"for the time being, all distributions should ensure that python refers to the same target as python2."
I read above as the python community itself made "python" the default for python 2.7 and "python3" for python 3.x. Nevertheless, an unfortunate choice at this time. I understand the reasoning at the time of writing (March 2011) but now this should be reconsidered.
Re:Python Versions Used in Commercial Projects, 2016 Edition
by rtpg on Friday November 11, 2016 @08:39AM
(#12930468)
We actually hit an unfortunate consequence of this with some scripts being called in python 2 mode while we were working in a python 3 virtual environment.
"for the time being, all distributions should ensure that python refers to the same target as python2."
I read above as the python community itself made "python" the default for python 2.7 and "python3" for python 3.x. Nevertheless, an unfortunate choice at this time. I understand the reasoning at the time of writing (March 2011) but now this should be reconsidered.