Re: Python 3.4

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

On August 15, 2014 4:57:19 PM EDT, Diogene Laerce <me_buss777@yahoo.fr> wrote:
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>On 08/15/2014 10:20 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> On August 15, 2014 1:42:04 PM EDT, Paul Tagliamonte
><paultag@debian.org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 07:28:06PM +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote:
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>>> the /usr/bin/python command is unlikely to change soon; more
>>> information
>>> on how this should be treated on UNIX like systems can be found at
>PEP
>>> 0394.
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>> It's more likely /usr/bin/python will someday be removed than someday
>point to a python3 version. 
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>No python on the OS ? Regard to the number of applications that rely on
>python, that's kind of unlikely no ?
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>Cheers,

Pointing /usr/bin/python at a python3 version is not providing python in that sense. If something uses python3, it should use /usr/bin/python3.  Someday, in the distant future, /usr/bin/python should become irrelevant. It should never point at a python3 version. 

Scott K