Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation

[Ned Deily]

In article 
<CAPTjJmpFYoxnP-1W2-_8riaOz30W2LSz5Q7Ky4fBpC-BPMvA-w at mail.gmail.com>,
 Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, it only *became* contrary to recommended practice in response to
> Arch doing it and everyone seeing the issues it caused :) Personally,
> I'm glad they did. Lets those of us who follow "slower" distros (I'm
> running Debian) get the benefit of someone else's hindsight.

Well, many people thought that the problems caused by changing "python" 
to mean "python3" at this stage in its lifecycle were so obvious that 
there was no need to formalize them in a PEP.  Arch proved us wrong, 
hence PEP 394.

http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org