Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Lachlan <lachlan.00@gmail.com> writes:

> i'm not an expert by any means but i fail to see how this is an issue?

In short: Debian is not the only Unix-like system where Python is
installed, and consistency across operating systems is valuable.

> -Everyone wrote scripts for python 2.x using /usr/bin/python

And eventually Python 2 will be long obsolete.

> -With python3, scripts were written specifically for python3 using
> /usr/bin/python3

Not all of them, and the expectation is that more and more systems will
assume “/usr/bin/python” is the current version of Python.

See PEP 394 <URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/>.

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