Guido van Rossum wrote:
No, no, no! *Eventually* Python 3.0 will just be "python". Until then, it needs to be "python3.0".
I think you should consider changing the installation policy to installing each file with its own pythonx.y name and alias exactly one, the system default, as 'python'. Multiple installations are going to be common for several years, I suspect.
Currently on Windows, python3.0 is installed as just plain 'python'. This already causes problems when I want to choose 2.5 or 3.0. In my quick start list, I have two entries which both say "Python (command line)" with the *same* icon. Switching to admin, I just renamed one to Python2.5..., but that changes it also in the Python25 start menu directory, so I do not know if the change will survive the upgrade to 2.5.3. Duplicate names are also a problem for the right-click-on-.py-file context menu. It would be really helpful if there was a new icon for 3.0.
Long agon, Red Hat installed Python 2 as "python2" instead of "python" and it led to endless problems.
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