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

[Paul Moore]

On 15 March 2016 at 16:50, Michel Desmoulin <desmoulinmichel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, but you are able to deal with those issues. And they happen rarely.

Agreed. One of the issues with the debates about whether to add Python
to PATH by default was that the people involved - the Python core devs
- were not at all typical users (they probably have multiple Python
versions installed, and they are comfortable with technical details
like PATH management, etc).

As Nick said, we need people like educators, with real experience of
what the stumbling blocks for new users are, to provide a more
realistic justification for the change. Maybe someone in this
discussion could raise a feature request on bugs.python.org suggesting
this gets changed?

Paul