On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: > In article <lsb84u$21c$1...@reader1.panix.com>, > Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: >> Apparently. Perhaps theres an "enable LSB compliance" option >> somewhere in the Arch install docs, but I didn't see it... > > Also beware that, unlike most other distributions and contrary to > recommended practice, Arch has chosen to make Python 3 its default, that > is, when everything is installed, `python` invokes `python3`, rather > than `python2`. So you may need to change shebang lines in scripts, etc. > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/python
Well, it only *became* contrary to recommended practice in response to Arch doing it and everyone seeing the issues it caused :) Personally, I'm glad they did. Lets those of us who follow "slower" distros (I'm running Debian) get the benefit of someone else's hindsight. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
