Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> added the comment:

In either case, there's a high likelihood the PYTHON default will resolve to 3.3a0 for any Python developer.

Ah, I understand the reason for the phrasing in your patch: UNIX systems typically install 3.x as python3, not python, so the high likelihood is only for Windows and a few UNIX systems like Arch. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10224> _______________________________________