[Python-ideas] py launcher for Linux?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Andrew Barnert writes:

 > If you just run python (off the path), unless -3 is specified, in
 > which case you run python3 instead.  Doesn't that over all known
 > distros, third-party installations, and pristine local installs of
 > 3.x?

I don't know if you consider MacPorts a "distro", but no, it doesn't
install a /opt/local/bin/python3 link.  You need to specify the minor
version.