[Python-Dev] PEP 394

[Andrew Svetlov]

ArchLinux has used `python` as alias for `python3` while `python2` is
still supported.

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:58 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> PEP 394
>> was at the top of my list recently
>
>
> I've tried to edit it to be a little bit shorter (perhaps cleaner) and
> commented (up to revision 2) up to Migration Notes.
> http://piratepad.net/pep-0394
>
> The main points:
> 1. `python2.7` should be `python27`
> 2. until platform supports Python 2, `python` should link to python2 binary
> 3. python2 should always point to the latest version available on the system
> (I didn't write that in comments)
> --
> anatoly t.
>
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