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

[Paul Moore]

On 17 March 2016 at 10:48, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So for new users (without Python install): "Install your preferred
>> copy of Python, and use the command py to run Python (either to run a
>> script, or for interactive use)".
>
> What? I thought we just agreed it should be "python"!   :)
>
> This brings us full circle back to the reason I interjected in this
> thread: why are we making the standard invocation of Python different
> on Windows?

Because for me, personally, I don't view cross-platform compatibility
of "the command you use to invoke Python" as a goal. At least not
until it's possible on Unix for "python" to invoke Python 3.

I will happily concede that your goals are different.
Paul