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Re: Python Alternatives?

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Michael Milliman wrote:

> I currently have both Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 installed on my debain
> 8.5 (jessie) system.  The default Python interpreter on the system is
> Python 2.7 (as linked by /usr/bin/python).  I would prefer this default
> to be Python 3.4.  I can, of course manually change the link in /usr/bin
> to point to Python 3.4, however, I am concerned that doing this may
> defeat some other available method for making this change. I note that
> update-alternatives does not have a group for the Python interpreter,
> and so cannot be used for this change.  Is there some other more
> acceptable method for making this change other than just manually
> changing the line /usr/bin/python to point to python3.4 instead of
> python2.7?

you mean this perhaps

$ python --version
Python 2.7.9
$ alias python=python3.4
$ python --version
Python 3.4.2

put the alias in your .profile to make it permanent

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Python Alternatives? Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2016-12-14 00:20 +0100
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    Re: Python Alternatives? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-12-14 05:50 +0100
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