[Python-ideas] Make py.exe default to Python 3

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 10:03:13 EST 2016


On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 12:17 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> tl; dr; I'm against making the unversioned name "python" (or "py")
> forever mean Python 2. There are justifications for it on Unix, but
> none of those apply on Windows.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/#exclusion-of-ms-windows

On Unix, yes, but not on Windows.

+1 for making py.exe now default to Python 3.

ChrisA


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