Re: GNOME goal for 3.8: Python 3 -- impact for pygobject itself

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Colin Walters wrote:

> The whole thing is just so horrible...Python upstream should have just
> accepted they made a different (but closely related) programming
> language and said "python" is always python2, and "python3" is 3, or
> they should have made a python2 symlink upstream for the old branch, so
> python2 users knew where to find it reliably.

This happened a bit late but http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/
defines exactly this.

  This PEP provides a convention to ensure that Python scripts can
  continue to be portable across *nix systems, regardless of the
  default version of the Python interpreter (i.e. the version invoked
  by the python command).

   - python2 will refer to some version of Python 2.x
   - python3 will refer to some version of Python 3.x
   - python should refer to the same target as python2 but may refer to
     python3 on some bleeding edge distributions


        Fred