On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:18:16 -0400, Ned Batchelder wrote: > On 4/15/14 5:34 PM, Joshua Landau wrote: >> On 15 April 2014 06:03, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >>> Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu>: >>> >>>> Any decent system should have 3.4 available now. >>> >>> Really, now? Which system is that? >> >> Arch is on 3.4 *default*. >> >> $> python >> Python 3.4.0 (default, Mar 17 2014, 23:20:09) [...] >> >> > Yeah, that's the wrong way to do it, and they shouldn't have done that. > "python" needs to mean Python 2.x for a long time.
That's a matter of opinion :-) But Arch is considered pretty gung-ho in this matter, even by people (like me) who want "python" to mean "the latest version" rather than "something old and decrepit". I recall jokes back when Arch first moved to Python 3 as their system Python, that Arch was the bleeding-edge Linux distro for those who found Slackware too tame and unadventurous. For the avoidance of doubt: Python 2.7 is not "old and decripit". Yet. But some day it will be. When that time comes, I want "python" to mean Python 3.6 or 3.7 or 4.2, or whatever is the most recent version, not 2.7 or 1.5. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
