> 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. > 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