Feb. 3, 2008
1:24 a.m.
Guido asked that this thread be moved to python-3000. Reply-To set. Greg Ewing writes:
Adam Olsen wrote:
They also have often broken python code that depended on one or two small details, and we haven't needed a new extension before.
But we haven't had such major incompatibilities between versions before.
At the least, I think the executable should only be installed as "python3", and never just "python" (unless you know what you're doing and ask for it).
I don't see any need to shorten "python3.0" to "python3". Also, another exception should be if there is no other Python installed. Then installing a link at "python" should be OK.