Depending on the package manager / distribution, 'python' might be symlinked to either Python 2 or Python 3. If you don't have Python 3 installed, it might very

Depending on the package manager / distribution, 'python' might be symlinked to either Python 2 or Python 3. If you don't have Python 3 installed, it might very well point to Python 2. These days it will almost certainly prefer Python 3, but I am also in the habit of actually typing 'python3' instead of 'python' because of what I assume are issues I've had in the past.