[Python-Dev] PEP 370 - per-user scripts directory on Windows

[Petr Viktorin]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> OTOH, it may be time to reconsider our recommendation to distros as well,
>> suggesting that for Python 3.5+, we will consider it appropriate to have the
>> "python" symlink refer to "python3".
>
> If *all* distros provide a "python2" symlink, then the recommendation
> can become "use python if it's 2/3 compatible, or python2/python3 to
> choose", and then it won't hurt to switch python to be python3.
> Are there known distros in which current versions (or, those that will be
> current when 3.5 is released) aren't providing "python2"?

That wouldn't be a good recommendation for the long term.
Fedora probably won't drop python2 from the default installation
before 3.5 is released, but hopes are high that it'll happen when 3.5
is still current. Not sure about others.