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Re:All Python versions less than 3.6 are now EOL by jlokier on Sunday September 13, 2020 @01:58PM (#24462645)
Maybe it's the fact "python" usually runs Python 2.7 on modern systems.

From there, you use the built-in documentation, learn your way around the language, and end up with Python 2.7 as your daily driver.

You have to know to write "python3" to get Python 3. In effect, it's not the default, it's the special alternate version.

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Re:All Python versions less than 3.6 are now EOL by p_l on Sunday September 13, 2020 @05:03PM (#24463925)
A lot of the time, the systems people work with still default to python2 with python3 requiring special care just to install.
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