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Re:What, No Python in RHEL 8 Beta? by nrclark on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @01:13PM (#18717825)
Totally agree in principle.

One interesting note - MacOS doesn't have a /usr/bin/python2 (at least, not at the time of this writing). It supplies /usr/bin/python, and also /usr/bin/python2.7.

That might not matter at all, but it's worth noting.

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Re:What, No Python in RHEL 8 Beta? by KerrickStaley on Thursday December 20, 2018 @12:24PM (#18726915)
I know. I filed a bug about this in Apple's tracker years ago and they still haven't done anything about it. This contravenes the official upstream Python recommendation, which is that "Unix-like software distributions (including systems like Mac OS X and Cygwin) should install the python2 command into the default path whenever a version of the Python 2 interpreter is installed". See PEP-394 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/.
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