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Re:The struggles of an open source maintainer by kingosticks on Friday May 17, 2019 @05:28AM (#19937797)
So, maybe this is not quite the same thing, but wasn't it Arch (and only Arch?) that made python point to python3? And in doing so went against what the upstream Python project explicitly specified to do? I remember dealing with a few users who ran into this.
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Re:The struggles of an open source maintainer by doubleunplussed on Friday May 17, 2019 @08:41AM (#19938927)
I believe they made this change before the official advice was contrary to it.

Also, if you download and compile Python from python.org, isn't it also just 'python' that you get as your executable? If so arch is just following upstream, and the Python devs should follow their own advice.

Arch doesn't seem to be patching this, though you can see in the PKGBUILD that arch explicitly creates 'python3' as a link to 'python' (with a comment lamenting that this isn't done by default) :

https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h...

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Re:The struggles of an open source maintainer by gravitas on Friday May 17, 2019 @10:56AM (#19940179)
> I believe they made this change before the official advice was contrary to it.

Arch: ~2010 PEP: ~2011-2012

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28639

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Re:The struggles of an open source maintainer by billforsternz on Friday May 17, 2019 @04:23PM (#19943217)
Off topic but I have to say as an occasional dabbler this is something that drives me crazy whenever I take a look. So much talk of Python 2 being obsolete and irrelevant to new devs. Yet the command 'python' points to Python 2. Seriously?
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Re:The struggles of an open source maintainer by int_19h on Thursday May 23, 2019 @06:01AM (#19990200)
From PEP 394:

"in preparation for an eventual change in the default version of Python, Python 2 only scripts should either be updated to be source compatible with Python 3 or else to use python2 in the shebang line."

So it will change eventually. But why rush to break things?

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