-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Malcolm Greene wrote: > I'm jumping between Linux, Mac and Windows environments. On Linux and > Mac we can invoke Python via python3 but on Windows it appears that > only python works. Interestingly, Windows supports both pip and pip3 > flavors. Am I missing something? And yes, I know I can manually create > a python3 alias by copying python.exe to python3.exe but that approach > has its own set of nuances on locked down servers plus the hassle of > keeping these python3 copies up-to-date across Python updates. > > Also curious: Do the Windows versions of Python 3.7 and 3.8 provide a > python3 alias to start Python?. > > Thanks! > Malcolm
Linux (and presumably Mac) just set "python" and "python3" as symlinks to various flavors of python2.x or 3.x. Setting up a couple of links / shortcuts should be equally possible on a windows box. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEBcqaUD8uEzVNxUrujhHd8xJ5ooEFAl2eDg8ACgkQjhHd8xJ5 ooHYxggAsozJWO9OQtXApE0AeG9H1HW7y3cRUyXIX7OxrgnAKxusnPq5uiyZYFEs c1pYlwi1xkO2m0dDL9sB1BF3fOQn3h6HjH2jsdN5M/qTK4EiZ5sIiWXy/VyeN6Sf PzjLx8a8n4qt53yifKN7YBdnPIgyKLY1FSpyvpwc0hWndX70soapU2J4NJtNoIuj MxnKr3KJGynr5XemBiMWNtzv9bPWxPaA5kytaSzOXpVS8Dc7I9ToJe2Dtb/nNGDu nI3nYa3GnGGDN/HEaVbEq5Jq+oj7vtYiR9lUoqxn+Jes8D+Ga6Dg5zBvMQ3DTVac 53m4B9VaPop1mpm8Ba3mW/x2Cvp9nw== =yPoj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
