Apologies, link cut in original quote: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-February/011910.html
On Oct 19, 2010, at 9:58 PM, Max Countryman wrote: >> I failed to find a reference, but I seem to remember the Python team >> deciding at some point that they intended to keep the name "python" for the >> Python 2.X binaries perpetually, and require Python 3.X to be invoked as >> "python3". Arch might be alone in making this change, and inconsistent with >> other Python distributions. >> EDIT: I can't find a conclusive decision but here is one discussion on the >> subject: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-February/0... > > There is any interesting conversation taking place over at Hacker News: > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1808840
