On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/07/2017 11:39 AM, Clint Moyer wrote: >> All Linux operating systems come with Python installed, with more >> recent systems such as Arch defaulting /usr/bin/python to Python3, >> since Python2 discontinued some 7-9 years ago. > > Poor choice of words, in my opinion. Python 2 has not received new > features for 7-9 years now but it certainly hasn't been "discontinued" > and won't be for some years yet, though new programming (and distros) > should be with Python 3 now.
Also, /usr/bin/python shouldn't be Python 3. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/ But various distros are moving towards "don't have Python 2 installed by default", which consequently means "no system scripts depend on Python 2". ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
