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Re: The python command in Debian



Hi

Rene Engelhard schrieb am 18.07.2020,  8:26 +0200:
>Am 14.07.20 um 11:00 schrieb Piotr Ożarowski:
>> FTR: I didn't change my mind. /usr/bin/python is still used outside
>> Debian packages, in /usr/local/bin scripts and applications and I
>> strongly disagree to touch it.
>
>Unfortunately (at least if I remember correctly I came up with an
>example of this lately...) also new stuff does #!/usr/bin/python and
>assumes it is python3...
>
>
>Do some distros set /usr/bin/python to python 3?

Yup, Arch does. From the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Python

Any program requiring Python 2 needs to point to /usr/bin/python2, instead of
/usr/bin/python, which points to Python 3. 

Cheers
Sebastian

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