From wescpy at gmail.com  Thu Nov  3 02:52:50 2022
From: wescpy at gmail.com (wesley chun)
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 06:52:50 -0000
Subject: [Baypiggies] Whither `python` OR `python2` and `python3`?
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Thanks for all the commentary. It's good to see what people are thinking.
It turns out my problem wasn't related to the original "cause" that I
thought. It was the Buildpacks system (how I build containers while
avoiding Docker) that I was using to create the container had
/usr/bin/python as a symlink to... python (not python2 nor python3),
meaning a circular self-referencing... reference. I got the responsible
team to fix that bug so that "python" links to whichever version of Python
is default in that container image, and everything works again.

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On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 3:06 PM James Salsman <jsalsman at gmail.com> wrote:

> >... I very much want /usr/bin/python working for python 2 scripts and
> crashing on python 3 scripts in order to avoid silent bugs due to running
> the wrong interpreter.
>
> I agree strongly. Does anyone know if this is just Ubuntu or is Debian
> doing this too?
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