On: Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark released

[broodbucket]

Plenty of things don't have python 3 support, but you can still use python2 without it being /usr/bin/python.

[geofft → broodbucket]

There is no /usr/bin/python in the default Ubuntu install. There's a /usr/bin/python3, and if you `apt install python` you can get /usr/bin/python. But all of the system's code that uses Python has been converted to Python 3.

[detaro → broodbucket]

I doubt very much Ubuntu has made python3 /usr/bin/python, since the official recommendation of the Python project is to not do that.

Still true of course that it doesn't have to be installed by default even if some applications still need it.

[bobajeff → detaro]

> I doubt very much Ubuntu has made python3 /usr/bin/python, since the official recommendation of the Python project is to not do that.

Tell that to Arch. :(

[detaro → bobajeff]

I know. If I remember right, Arch did it before the Python project published any official guidance/Arch triggered one being released.