Re: [arch-general] Python 3 Rationale?

Max Countryman <maxc <at> me.com> writes:

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I failed to find a reference, but I seem to remember the Python team

deciding at some point that they

intended to keep the name "python" for the Python 2.X binaries perpetually, and require Python 3.X to be invoked as "python3". Arch might be alone in making this change, and inconsistent with other Python distributions.

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EDIT: I can't find a conclusive decision but here is one discussion on the subject: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-February/0...

There is any interesting conversation taking place over at Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1808840

Ha ha! We posted at virtually the same time! (Or not...) :D