On 3/20/14 9:06 PM, Ned Batchelder wrote:
On 3/20/14 8:32 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:26:39 -0400, Ned Batchelder wrote:
On 3/20/14 3:07 PM, Eric Jacoboni wrote:
Le 20/03/2014 16:21, Marko Rauhamaa a écrit :
All tutorials will tell you to start it with
#!/usr/bin/env python
which will start python2 on all (?) existing linux distros, but is
expected to start python3 within the next decade.
With Arch-Linux, python is python3...
Yes, and they have been told many times that this was foolish and wrong,
but it persists, much to our pain.
How bizarre. I've been looking forward with great pleasure to Fedora
moving to Python 3 as the standard system Python, expecting that this
move from one of the big distros will start a chain reaction of others
doing the same thing. Perhaps Arch-Linux is guilty of being prematurely
Python 3, a little like those people hauled up to explain themselves to
the House Unamerican Activities Committee to explain why they were a
"premature anti-fascist".
My understanding is that Fedora's move will not include making the word
"python" mean Python 3. Their move means that Python 3 will be
installed by default, and that their Python programs that are part of
the distro will be Python 3 programs. They can still refer to it as
"python3".
From http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default :
Users shouldn't notice any changes, ... /usr/bin/python will still
point to Python 2 and depending on result of discussions with FPC,
"yum install python-foo" will still install Python 2 version of
the package.
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