Colin Walters wrote: > The whole thing is just so horrible...Python upstream should have just > accepted they made a different (but closely related) programming > language and said "python" is always python2, and "python3" is 3, or > they should have made a python2 symlink upstream for the old branch, so > python2 users knew where to find it reliably.
This happened a bit late but http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/ defines exactly this. This PEP provides a convention to ensure that Python scripts can continue to be portable across *nix systems, regardless of the default version of the Python interpreter (i.e. the version invoked by the python command). - python2 will refer to some version of Python 2.x - python3 will refer to some version of Python 3.x - python should refer to the same target as python2 but may refer to python3 on some bleeding edge distributions Fred _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
