Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 02:33:20 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-118-110-103.hsd1.mn.comcast.net X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1407810800 10835 24.118.110.103 (12 Aug 2014 02:33:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 02:33:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:76097 On 2014-08-11, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Ned Deily wrote: >> In article , >> Grant Edwards wrote: >>> Apparently. Perhaps theres an "enable LSB compliance" option >>> somewhere in the Arch install docs, but I didn't see it... >> >> Also beware that, unlike most other distributions and contrary to >> recommended practice, Arch has chosen to make Python 3 its default, >> that is, when everything is installed, `python` invokes `python3`, >> rather than `python2`. So you may need to change shebang lines in >> scripts, etc. >> >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/python I noticed that when I told it to install "python" it wanted to install 3.4 before I told it "no". > Well, it only *became* contrary to recommended practice in response > to Arch doing it and everyone seeing the issues it caused :) > Personally, I'm glad they did. Lets those of us who follow "slower" > distros (I'm running Debian) get the benefit of someone else's > hindsight. At the moment, I only have python2 installed and have manually set up symlinks so that typing "python" does what the rest of the world (including me) expects. -- Grant