[Python-ideas] Make py.exe default to Python 3

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Tue Mar 15 04:56:12 EDT 2016


On 15 March 2016 at 04:47, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> * accessing Python 3 on *nix systems (without a tool like vex, pyenv or conda)
>
> On the *nix side of things, the long term objective is to get "python"
> to a point of being usable for the latter case, but there's still a
> lot of other things to be done before that's a realistic option (e.g.
> migrating system packages over to using their own dedicated binary or
> symlink, so "python" can be switched to point to something else
> without affecting system services).

Ah, OK. I hadn't realised that was a goal for Unix. That's good to know.
Paul


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