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It's high time to change that default. I'm glad django will not support Python2 after 2020, making clear it's legacy.
by mkesper 10y ago
It's high time to change that default. I'm glad django will not support Python2 after 2020, making clear it's legacy.
- deckiedan 10y agoOh absolutely. There's a few linux distros starting to ship python3 by default, which is great. It's happening far too slowly. Speaking of speed, I hear 3.7 should finally be able to beat 2.7 for most benchmarks, which is pretty sweet.
- ZenoArrow 10y agoTo give another example, Ubuntu is moving towards Python 3 by default, the plan is to have it as the only pre-installed Python version by 18.04 LTS, which is only a year away. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Python https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Python
- Franciscouzo 10y agoThere's a reason the python command points to Python 2: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/
- mkesper 10y agohttps://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/#id16 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/#id16 It is anticipated that there will eventually come a time where the third party ecosystem surrounding Python 3 is sufficiently mature for this recommendation to be updated to suggest that the python symlink refer to python3 rather than python2 .