[ale] Slightly OT: System default python version

[Putnam, James M.]

    Lots of, maybe most, of 2.7, and 3 are common. Some potentially useful
    things, like map and filter, are named the same but function very differently.
    Ideally 3 should have been a proper superset of 2.x, but Guido evidently
    decided differently, and it isn't.

    If he doesn't use any of the named-the-same-but-different features he
    can use either 2.7 or 3.

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James  M. Putnam
Visiting Professor of Computer Science

The air was soft, the stars so fine,
the promise of every cobbled alley so great,
that I thought I was in a dream.
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From: Ale [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Todor Fassl via Ale [ale at ale.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 6:03 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] Slightly OT: System default python version

I got a question from a student who is using python. "I'd rather not
hard code in any python version. Is there any reason to have the system
default be 2 instead of 3?"

He had asked me to install the python-matplotlib package. I was like,
"Are you sure you want python-matplotlib and not python3-matplotlib?" He
is still coding in python2.7 instead of python3 but not by choice. Is
there such a thing as a system default python version? To program in
python3, doesn't he have to modify his code?

--
Todd
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