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Re:Ubuntu announces 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Beta 1 by propercoil on Thursday September 06, 2012 @10:38PM (#4487458)
not a python guy but heard this means python<3 scripts will break? no backwards compatibility with the new version?
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Re:Ubuntu announces 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Beta 1 by briancurtin on Friday September 07, 2012 @01:13AM (#4487758)
First sentence is false, second is true (by itself).

Python 3 isn't becoming `/usr/bin/python` - it will be `/usr/bin/python3` and the Python programs that are shipped on the CD will use that. If you thought Python 3 was going to become `/usr/bin/python`, then yes, that would cause backwards compatibility issues.

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