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[framecowbird]

most Linux distros still have Python 2 as the default though, right?

[lbhdc → framecowbird]

Fedora only includes py3 by default in workstation 32.

[marcuskaz → framecowbird]

No, Ubuntu 18.04 shipped with Python3 as the default.

[3np → marcuskaz]

Not true. Vanilla 18.04 LTS ships with no Python installed by default and the main repos `python` package is 2.7. Same for Debian 10. Ubuntu 20.04 switched the `python` package to Python3.

Even conservative CentOS (where Python is a base dependency for the system, as opposed to the above) is on Python3 as of now though.

As far as I am aware, Debian 10 buster is the last mainstream LTS distro to default to python2. Should change next year with Debian 11.

[3np → framecowbird]

AFAIK the remaining notable one is Debian. Ubuntu LTS moved to 3 with 20.04.

[dharmab → framecowbird]

Only server/LTS versions which need Python 2 for backwards compatibility.

[loeg → framecowbird]

Not most, no.

[abiogenesis → framecowbird]

CentOS 8 and the latest Fedora doesn't even come with Python 2 installed.

[ATsch → framecowbird]

That's just a measure for backwards compatibility, so python2-only scripts don't cause cryptic errors when they have a `python` shebang. Many distros ship without python2, but will probably still link `python -> python2` for the near future.