I believe they made this change before the official advice was contrary to it. Also, if you download and compile Python from python.org, isn't it also just 'py

I believe they made this change before the official advice was contrary to it. Also, if you download and compile Python from python.org, isn't it also just 'python' that you get as your executable? If so arch is just following upstream, and the Python devs should follow their own advice. Arch doesn't seem to be patching this, though you can see in the PKGBUILD that arch explicitly creates 'python3' as a link to 'python' (with a comment lamenting that this isn't done by default) : https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/python https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h...