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Subject: Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage
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> What I am opposing is the suggestion to install, in the near to
> medium
> term, a command of exactly the same name that has subtly similar but
> incompatible behaviour, when that behaviour *already* has a command –
> ‘python3’ – that is widely used by those who need it.
> 

my problem with that plan is all of the printed documentation saying to
learn python, type "python".

At the very least there needs to a usr/bin/python that prints
instructions about what you should run.