[Python-3000] [Python-ideas] Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Feb 3 08:26:26 CET 2008


Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> I don't see any need to shorten "python3.0" to "python3".

I was thinking that "python3" would be the 3.x series
equivalent of what "python" is now, i.e. installation
of 3.0 would create links called "python3.0" and (unless
you're doing altinstall) also "python3".

> Also, another exception should be if there is no other Python
> installed.  Then installing a link at "python" should be OK.

Until you subsequently go to install one of the 2.x
versions.

--
Greg



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