[Linux-SIG] Revisit of PEP 394 -- The "python" Command on Unix-Like Systems

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> There's unfortunately no completely non-disruptive way to manage this
> shift (hence why it's taking so long), but we think this is a
> reasonable approach that allows each distro to devise a migration plan
> that makes sense for them and their userbase while still allow Python
> end users to write readable cross-distro code that doesn't particular
> care whether it's run under Python 2 or Python 3, and for open source
> Python project maintainers to provide developer guidelines that are
> entirely independent of particular distro's choices about default
> Python runtimes.
>
> Before taking this proposal to python-dev, I'd turn the general
> concept into an actual PR with specific proposed wording changes, but
> I figured it made sense for us to seek some initial feedback here
> before doing that.

Sounds good to me. (I'm not subbed to linux-sig, though perhaps I
should be.) Did I get copied in on this for assistance with the PEP
writing? In any case, I'm wholly in favour of the transition.

ChrisA