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Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch

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On Saturday, January 23, 2016 08:50:49 PM Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2016, at 03:38 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> >Personally I seriously dislike the trend to call Python Python 2 (and I
> >still thing approving a pep to invent /usr/bin/python2 because Arch went
> >insane was a horrible idea).  There's an earlier spot in the document
> >where it says that everything refers to python and python3 unless it's
> >explicit.  I'll make this spot /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages and any
> >risk of ambiguity is, I think, resolved.
> 
> I'll leave it to you, but my take on it is that "Python" is the generic term
> for the language and its specification.  "Python 2" v "Python 3" provides
> disambiguation when you're talking about specific major versions of the
> language.  "Python 3.5" and such usually describe specific releases of the
> CPython interpreter implementation (note how "CPython" is used to
> disambiguate between alternative implementations of the language
> specification).  Finally, python2.7, python3.4 and such are used to
> describe the executables that provide the versions (e.g. mentally prepend
> them with /usr/bin).
> 
> All of this, except the last point perhaps, is orthogonal to the
> /usr/bin/python2 issue you mention.
> 
> Back to the original point, to me saying "Python" and "Python 3" is
> confusing or misleading, given the above definitions.  It's confusing
> because "Python 3" *is* Python, so what's the difference?  It's misleading
> because it implies that somehow "Python 3" isn't "Python".
> 
> >> B.2. dh_python2 and dh_python3
> >> 
> >> Again, I think here you want to say "Python2 and Python3" to disambiguate
> >> between generic Python.
> >
> >If I say Python and Python3, what version can the one that's not Python3
> >possibly be?  I don't think it's any less confusing than starting to call
> >what we've always called "Python" "Python 2".
> 
> See above, but to rephrase, "Python" is ambiguous in this context because
> you could be talking about Python-the-language, not
> Python-some-release-version.

I don't particularly agree, but if that's correct, then there's a large amount 
of change needed throughout the policy.  These certainly aren't the only 
places this comes up.  Ambiguous or not, I think the policy is mostly 
consistent in using python and python3 vice python2 and python3.  At this 
point I think internal consistency is probably more important, so if someone 
wants to go through and make all the python's that should be python2, etc then 
please send in a patch.

Scott K

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Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2016-01-21 16:50 +0100
  Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2016-01-23 00:00 +0100
    Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2016-01-23 09:40 +0100
      Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2016-01-24 03:00 +0100
        Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2016-01-24 04:10 +0100
          Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-01-24 06:40 +0100
            Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2016-01-24 07:10 +0100
            Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2016-01-24 19:10 +0100
            Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-01-26 07:00 +0100
            Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> - 2016-01-26 18:00 +0100
              Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-01-27 04:40 +0100
                Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2016-01-27 05:20 +0100
                Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-01-27 10:50 +0100
            Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2016-01-29 23:30 +0100
              Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-01-30 00:10 +0100
    Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2016-02-16 01:10 +0100
      Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2016-02-16 01:50 +0100
        Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2016-02-16 02:00 +0100
        Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2016-02-16 02:00 +0100
          Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2016-02-16 02:20 +0100
  Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-01-24 06:50 +0100
    Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-01-24 07:00 +0100
      Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2016-01-24 07:20 +0100
        Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-01-25 06:00 +0100
          Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2016-01-25 06:30 +0100
    Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2016-01-24 07:10 +0100
  Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2016-02-15 23:30 +0100
    Re: Python Policy: Things to consider for Stretch Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-02-16 03:50 +0100

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