Hi, On October 29, 2013 09:49:53 AM Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > python3.X series and python2.X series are two distinct languages > (incompatible API and ABI changes), and it has been decided to keep > both alive as independent implementations. > thus "/usr/bin/python" will always point to a python2.X > implementation, Is there any documentation of this decision? The PEP you reference > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/ is much less firm on this matter: *Future Changes to this Recommendation[1]* It is anticipated that there will eventually come a time where the third party ecosystem surrounding Python 3 is sufficiently mature for this recommendation to be updated to suggest that the python symlink refer to python3 rather than python2. -------- [1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/#id14 Thanks, -Steve
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