Hello,
Upstream I submitted a [change to PEP 394] to allow distributions to
change /usr/bin/python in some limited cases:
- Users and administrators can, by a deliberate action, change python to
invoke Python 3. (Activating a venv counts as such an action, but so
would e.g. using alternates, installing a non-default overriding
package, or replacing /usr/bin/python.)
- In controlled environments where being explicit is valued more than
user experience (test environments, build systems, etc.), distributions
can omit the python command even when python2 is installed.
If this goes through, in Fedora I would like to:
- Create a "python" package containing *just* the /usr/bin/python
symlink. This would be a subpackage of python2, and python2 would
*suggest* it. In other words, it would be installed by default with
Python 2, but mock, koji, and test tools would omit it (unless something
deliberately Requires `python` or `/usr/bin/python`).
- Put an unofficial "python 3.6" on COPR (and maybe eventually in a
Module), which would be the recommended way to make `python` invoke
Python 3.
[change to PEP 394]: https://github.com/python/peps/pull/630
Upstream post on python-dev:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2018-April/153042.html
Let me know what you think.
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