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

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Mar 8 11:21:02 EST 2016


On 08/03/2016 15:03, Chris Angelico wrote:
> 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

+1 from me as well, it's irritating having to type "py -3" every time.

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Mark Lawrence



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