> What I am opposing is the suggestion to install, in the near to > medium > term, a command of exactly the same name that has subtly similar but > incompatible behaviour, when that behaviour *already* has a command – > ‘python3’ – that is widely used by those who need it. >
my problem with that plan is all of the printed documentation saying to learn python, type "python". At the very least there needs to a usr/bin/python that prints instructions about what you should run.