[Python-Dev] Another update for PEP 394 -- The "python" Command on Unix-Like Systems

Victor Stinner vstinner at redhat.com
Thu Feb 14 10:49:52 EST 2019


Le jeu. 14 févr. 2019 à 14:38, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> a écrit :
> Debian's concern about pointing python to python3 is that it will break software
> after an upgrade.  The current state seems is still the same that Debian doesn't
> want to ship a python symlink after the Python2 removal.

The other safer alternative is to start to provide "py" launcher on
Unix as well. Since it's something new, it's perfectly fine to decide
from the start to make it point to the latest Python version by
default.

Victor
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