Homebrew changed default Python to python 3!
INADA Naoki
songofacandy at gmail.com
Thu Mar 15 07:08:16 EDT 2018
FYI, they reverted python->python3 symlink. python command is now
Python 2 again.
https://discourse.brew.sh/t/python-and-pep-394/1813
Even though this revert, it is significant step:
* many formulas dropped `depends_on "python"`. Python 2 was installed
often by dependency before
but it's rare for now.
* Some formulas (including vim) keep `depends_on "python".
It means they are depending on Python 3 instead of 2.
It makes vim plugin authors can consider about dropping Python 2 support.
(vim is linked with Python 3 on recent Ubuntu already)
I hope Apple will provide "/usr/bin/python2" at least in next macOS,
to allow people using "python2" shebang
for scripts support only Python 2.
(And I hope Python 3.6 (or 3.7) is pre-installed in next macOS)...
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