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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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