Re: Python 3, was Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.19.0

[David Kastrup]

Noeck <address@hidden> writes:

>>> Python 3 is already the default in the latest Ubuntu release.
>> 
>> How do you figure that?  I have an up-to-date Ubuntu and calling "python
>> --version" gives 2.7.11+.
>
> By default, I mean what is installed by default/ships with the default
> installation [1]. /usr/bin/python will point to python2 for some longer
> time as PEP394 [2] requests. And Ubuntu plans to follow that
> recommendation [3].

So how do you define "the default" when /usr/bin/python is Python2?  And
when the package "python" lists as

address@hidden:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ dpkg -l python
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                          Version                     
Architecture                Description
+++-=============================================-===========================-===========================-===============================================================================================
ii  python                                        2.7.11-1                    
i386                        interactive high-level object-oriented language 
(default version)

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David Kastrup