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Re: The python command in Debian

From Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.maint.python
Subject Re: The python command in Debian
Date 2020-07-18 11:30 +0200
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On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 10:35:03AM +0200, debacle@debian.org wrote:
> > Yup, Arch does. From the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Python
> >
> > Any program requiring Python 2 needs to point to /usr/bin/python2, instead of
> > /usr/bin/python, which points to Python 3. 
>
> I wonder, what they do, if there will be a Python 4...

AFAIK Python 4 is not planned even in long term (e.g. because that would break
a lot of programs that rely on sys.version_info.major):

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0602/

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Dmitry Shachnev

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