[issue39633] venv does not include python<major>.<minor> symlink by default

[Lysandros Nikolaou]

Lysandros Nikolaou <lisandrosnik at gmail.com> added the comment:

That's right. I'll do that then. Thanks for baring with me.

Should we update the docs to mentiom this or just close this issue?

On Sat, Feb 15, 2020, 22:33 Vinay Sajip <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:

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> Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> added the comment:
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> In general, people should be working in venvs. That means that libraries
> should assume they are being installed into venvs. Therefore makefiles
> should be invoking plain "python" rather than "pythonX.Y", as they can
> never be sure which exact interpreter they're running under (you might have
> a newer one than the one in the Makefile - that shouldn't fail). Why not
> raise this as an issue with these projects?
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