Darshit Shah wrote: > On a fedora machine, Python 3 is installed by default, but not Python 2. And > the only binary available is /usr/bin/python3.
It's not only on Fedora. The Python docs themselves ([1], footnote 1) say: "On Unix, the Python 3.x interpreter is by default not installed with the executable named 'python', so that it does not conflict with a simultaneously installed Python 2.x executable." Bruno [1] https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/interpreter.html