On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 3:02 PM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 05:16:54PM -0500, Terry Reedy wrote: > > > It appears python is already python3 for a large majority of human users > > (as opposed to machines). > > > > https://www.jetbrains.com/research/python-developers-survey-2018/ > > Nearly 20000 valid responses, Oct-Nov. > > They may be valid responses, but we don't know if they are > representative of the broader Python community. Its a self-selected > survey of people which always makes the results statistically suspect. > > (By definition, an Internet survey eliminates responses from people who > don't fill out surveys on the Internet.) > > BUt even if representative, this survey only tells us what version > people are using, now how they invoke it. We can't conclude that the > command "python" means Python 3 for these users. We simply don't know > one way or another (and I personally wouldn't want to hazard a guess.)
Can we gather data? What if pip started reporting info on how it was run when contacting pypi? What info would be useful? I guess whether it's pip/pip3/python -m pip/python3 -m pip would be nice to know. I don't know if sys.executable would tell us anything useful or not. pip knows where the current python's script directory is; maybe it should report whether it contains 'python2', 'python3', 'python', and perhaps which ones are the same as each other? -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
