Why do I have both /usr/lib/python3 and /usr/lib/python3.8?

[Chris Green]

Why are there both /usr/lib/python3 and /usr/lib/python3.8 on my
x[ubuntu] system?

/usr/lib/python3 has just the dist-packages directory in it,
/usr/lib/python3.8 has lots of individual python files in it as well
as quite a number of directories.  

There's also a /usr/lib/python3.9 directory even though Ubuntu hasn't
moved to python3.9 yet.


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Chris Green
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