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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:59:55 +0200
Subject: Re: Linux distros w/o Python in "base" installation
From: David Palao <dpalao.python@gmail.com>
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2014-08-11 23:36 GMT+02:00 Ned Deily <nad@acm.org>:
> In article <lsb84u$21c$1@reader1.panix.com>,
>  Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> 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
>
> --
>  Ned Deily,
>  nad@acm.org
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Also Gentoo uses Python3 by default for some months now. The positive
side effect for me has been that I started seriously to switch to
python3.

Best