On 25 Oct 2013 09:02, "Terry Reedy" <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
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> Progess on the Python3 as 'standard Python' front: Yesterday, FESCO (Fedora Steering Committee?) approved a proposal to make Python 3 (version unspecified, I presume 3.3 or 3.4) the default Python in Fedora 22 (I did not see a date anywhere).

The current release cycle is F20, so this is aiming for late 2014 (and hence will be 3.4).

> http://lwn.net/Articles/571528/
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default

Note that unlike Arch, the Fedora devs currently plan to leave "/usr/bin/python" referring to Python 2 (see the "User Experience" part of the proposal).

Cheers,
Nick.

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