[Python-ideas] Make py.exe default to Python 3

[Paul Moore]

On 18 March 2016 at 20:35, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
>> In theory, this makes sense to me. What it needs is someone to
>> champion it.
>
> Isn't that what this conversation is doing? :-)

Not really. By "champion" I mean "take the lead" - i.e., pull together
all the arguments, summarise them, produce a proposal, write a patch
(or get someone else to write it) create the tracker item, get a core
dev to support it and shepherd it through to being committed. At the
moment, all we're doing is discussing possibilities, nobody's stepped
up to take the lead. I get the feeling that some participants in the
discussion might think that discussion is enough, but I've seen too
many of these threads fizzle out because no-one is interested enough,
or has enough time, to do the hard bits.

I just wanted to be clear that I started this thread for a *different*
proposal, which came to a conclusion that I plan (other commitments
permitting) to get implemented. But I'm *not* sufficiently interested
in this new proposal to take it forward, so someone else will need to
step up at some point if the idea is to go anywhere.

Paul