On Wed, 15 May 2024 at 04:09, Vít Ondruch <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> Every time I bring up such discussion, I am told "the reason it is
> called python3 and not python is well know" and yes, it is know to some,
> including me. But advocating for less experienced users. I advocating
> for users which are not experts on Python ecosystem. I am advocating for
> conventions.
>
>
Going from the convention I am finding on my MacOS-X brew and the Windows
box.. the convention is some variant of calling both the command and
package some variant of python3. Brew only gives you a python3 command and
will say the package is some name like python@3.<version>-3.<version>.
Windows does have a python package but also calls it python3 in places.

Also going from things I run into regularly.. python2 is still the most
used language in many places with it being provided as
/usr/local/bin/python or some other variant. Scripts which call
/usr/bin/python are still mostly python2 scripts and will break if run with
python3 on the first `print ""` statement or some other thing.

With EL7 and similar long lived python2 distributions going EOL this year..
I expect that this python2 will start to move, but I figure we are still a
decade out (going from how long I was dealing with perl4 after perl5 had
been out).



> I am trying to demonstrate that things should be obvious. There is
> "Python" language. Not "Python 3" language. There is e.g.
> https://www.python.org/ not https://www.python3.org/ etc.
>
> Therefore, I'd rather hear "you are right, that does not make too much
> sense (these days). It is confusing and it is about the time to make the
> things right (finally)". In your words "We are in 2024, so I suppose we
> could rename everything python3 to python now" is what I would appreciate.
>
>
> Vít
>
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