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Re:Python 2.7 Countdown by Lev1a on Sunday January 07, 2018 @11:17AM (#16091325)
AFAIK, Ubuntu does as well (if you mean that you have to write 'python3' instead of 'python' to execute Python3)
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Re:Python 2.7 Countdown by r3bl on Sunday January 07, 2018 @12:27PM (#16091633)
...up until 17.10.

Starting from 17.10, Python3 is the default one and the preinstalled one.

This switch kind of happened unnoticed because Ubuntu switched back to GNOME at that version, but IMHO it is an equally important switch.

With 18.04, we should see that change having much greater effect.

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Re:Python 2.7 Countdown by hansjorg on Sunday January 07, 2018 @11:41AM (#16091413)
It does. Not sure at what Ubuntu version it happened, but they've transitioned to Python 3 as default. Python 2 isn't even present in a default install anymore.
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