PEP 394

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 12:41 PM Peter via Python-list
<python-list at python.org> wrote:
>
> I'd imagine the PEP would stay as active, but changed so that:
>
> python2 -> always refers to python v2
> python3 -> always refers to python v3
> python -> which currently refers to python v2 will change to point to
> python v3

That would have a lot of very annoying considerations for shebangs. As
such, it's highly unlikely that this will become the recommendation
until LONG after 2020.

ChrisA