Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) by globular-toast on Thursday April 23, 2020 @05:00AM (#22954072)

I wonder if we'll ever get /usr/bin/python back. Or is it going to be like browser user-agent strings where we call it "python3" forever and forget why we can't just call it python?

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) by markrian on Thursday April 23, 2020 @07:20AM (#22954771)

You can install the [python-is-python3][0] package on 20.04, which symlinks /usr/bin/python to python3.

[0]: https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/python-is-python3

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) by globular-toast on Thursday April 23, 2020 @08:00AM (#22955019)

I saw that, but it's not the default setting. You can't just write a python script and expect it to work on Ubuntu without putting python3 in the shebang.

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) by e12e on Thursday April 23, 2020 @08:45AM (#22955320)

I think the python team decided to do it that way, in combination with various distro?

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) by Johnnynator on Thursday April 23, 2020 @11:29AM (#22957070)

The python symlink is allowed to be python2 or python3. E.g. Archlinux has it point to py3, Void Linux allows the symlink to be configured by the user.

See https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/ for details.

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) by amelius on Thursday April 23, 2020 @05:21AM (#22954154)

I guess it will break too many things, some of which may be out of control of Ubuntu.

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) by py3canbelinked on Thursday April 23, 2020 @07:51AM (#22954969)

apt-get install python-is-python3

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