[Python-Dev] PEP 370 - per-user scripts directory on Windows

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:47 PM, Petr Viktorin <encukou at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If *all* distros provide a "python2" symlink, then the recommendation
>> can become "use python if it's 2/3 compatible, or python2/python3 to
>> choose", and then it won't hurt to switch python to be python3.
>> Are there known distros in which current versions (or, those that will be
>> current when 3.5 is released) aren't providing "python2"?
>
> That wouldn't be a good recommendation for the long term.
> Fedora probably won't drop python2 from the default installation
> before 3.5 is released, but hopes are high that it'll happen when 3.5
> is still current. Not sure about others.

Clarification: If all distros *that provide Python 2.x* provide a
"python2" symlink, etc, etc.

ChrisA