[ale] Slightly OT: System default python version

[Pete Hardie]

#!/usr/bin/python3 at the start of the file, and set the execution bits?

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 6:03 PM, Todor Fassl via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> I got a question from a student who is using python. "I'd rather not hard
> code in any python version. Is there any reason to have the system default
> be 2 instead of 3?"
>
> He had asked me to install the python-matplotlib package. I was like, "Are
> you sure you want python-matplotlib and not python3-matplotlib?" He is
> still coding in python2.7 instead of python3 but not by choice. Is there
> such a thing as a system default python version? To program in python3,
> doesn't he have to modify his code?
>
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> Todd
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