Michael Milliman wrote: > I currently have both Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 installed on my debain > 8.5 (jessie) system. The default Python interpreter on the system is > Python 2.7 (as linked by /usr/bin/python). I would prefer this default > to be Python 3.4. I can, of course manually change the link in /usr/bin > to point to Python 3.4, however, I am concerned that doing this may > defeat some other available method for making this change. I note that > update-alternatives does not have a group for the Python interpreter, > and so cannot be used for this change. Is there some other more > acceptable method for making this change other than just manually > changing the line /usr/bin/python to point to python3.4 instead of > python2.7?
you mean this perhaps $ python --version Python 2.7.9 $ alias python=python3.4 $ python --version Python 3.4.2 put the alias in your .profile to make it permanent
