[issue41996] Should `make install` still install to /usr/bin/python3?

[Eric V. Smith]

Eric V. Smith  added the comment:

There's a PEP for this: PEP 394. If you want to change this, I suggest 
discussing it on the python-dev mailing list. If that leads to changes in the 
PEP, this issue can be re-opened.

Personally I don't see this change happening until there are no systems left 
that install python2 as /usr/bin/python. Which is unfortunate, but such is 
life. Myself, I have a shell alias for python that points to python3. That 
solves 95% of my problems.

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[issue41996] Should `make install` still install to /usr/bin/python3?

[Emmanuel Arias]

Emmanuel Arias  added the comment:

Hi,

There're many people that still use py2, or both.
Also python2 (python) is incompatible with python3, so we cannot
call python == python3.

(There was some discussion on Debian, just if you want take a look
https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2020/07/msg00042.html)

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[issue41996] Should `make install` still install to /usr/bin/python3?

[Patrick Reader]

New submission from Patrick Reader :

Since Python 2 is now finally gone, should the Python executable not be 
installed to simply `/usr/bin/python` rather than `/usr/bin/python3` when 
running `make install`?

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title: Should `make install` still install to /usr/bin/python3?
type: enhancement

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