Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes: > FWIW I don't share Ben's concern about this being a "backwards > incompatible" change (who is relying on the precise contents of the > banner when running 'python' interactively?!).
That's not a backward incompatibility anyone would seriously rely on, and I don't have that concern. The backward incompatibility I'm concerned about is: to have ‘python’, which today invokes Python 2 and some uncountable number of scripts rely on, change on a near-to-medium future upgrade to instead invoke the backward-incompatible Python 3 hence breaking those scripts. Merely noting a change in the interactive prompt's banner is, I agree, inconsequential by comparison. So that's not the objection. -- \ “All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more | `\ robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument | _o__) than others.” —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney
