[ale] Slightly OT: System default python version

[Jay Lozier]

Arch defaults to Python 3 with 2.7 available for packages that require it.


On 01/24/2018 08:19 PM, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> Rhel, and centos, still use python 2.7 as system default. Python 3.4 
> is optional. Most of the system management is python 2.7. Fedora ships 
> with both 2.7 and 3.6
>
> Lot's of python 2 code can work in 3. But there's enough changes that 
> it can't be relied upon to work without modifications.
>
> New python projects should be with version 3, not 2.
>
> On January 24, 2018 6:03:33 PM EST, 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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