[issue39633] venv does not include python<major>.<minor> symlink by default

Lysandros Nikolaou report at bugs.python.org
Fri Feb 14 21:24:08 EST 2020


Lysandros Nikolaou <lisandrosnik at gmail.com> added the comment:

The thing is that some projects I've worked on, like pegen, include a Makefile which uses `pythonX.Y` to choose the version and I have to change it to `python` quite frequently. 

I can't really figure out any way this could harm anyone, other than what you said (running `pythonX.Y` with the wrong values for X and Y), but even in that case you get something like `command not fonund` and that's an easy enough typo to find.

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