I don't remember ever having to do that, and my intro to cs class was py3 - I don't really run 2.7 day to day, is this a specific version? airbears2-10-142-3

I don't remember ever having to do that, and my intro to cs class was py3 - I don't really run 2.7 day to day, is this a specific version? airbears2-10-142-34-161:~ ecx$ echo 'print("hello")' >0.py airbears2-10-142-34-161:~ ecx$ python2.7 0.py hello airbears2-10-142-34-161:~ ecx$ python2.7 -V Python 2.7.10