On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 11:34 AM David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> .... > The business of how the python/python2/python3 commands are > implemented is not in the hands of the the Python authors, > but distributions like Debian/ubuntu/arch etc. My opinion is > that some distributions showed undue haste in changing over > to python→python3, leaving people running third-party Python2 > code in a difficult position. I would still not rely on bare > python to give me python3—I can't see the point. > Or the distributions didn't bite the bullet when it was first extracted from their foot :-) The fedora/RH/CentOS world has millions of lines of python2 which the OS can't really get started or installed without. In the meantime python came and went as a major web-scripting tool, new features were added, OO inheritance was corrected :-) now we have PEPs from the BFD adding back the data-typing that the language initially rejected.... :-) In other words, evolution took place. Cheers, > David. > >
