From: Illia Bobyr <illia.bobyr@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 02:16:00 GMT
Subject: Re: `git p4` broken on machines which do not have python on path
Message-ID: <101b03c5-dfad-41f0-8156-e541b8e6c68f@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Z6QUeaoH_tV2ncwn@tapette.crustytoothpaste.net>

On 2/5/25 17:46, brian m. carlson wrote:
> I realize that Python 3 is now the default, but there were apparently
> still some people who want to use Python 2.7 last time this came up, so
> the default shebang hasn't changed. According to Python upstream,
> `python` can be of any version, although for all distros I'm aware of,
> `python` is always version 2.

I just checked my Ubuntu 24.10 and `python` is `python3`.

❯ python --version
Python 3.12.7

❯ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 24.10
Release:        24.10
Codename:       oracular

❯ whereis python
python: /usr/bin/python

❯ dpkg -S /usr/bin/python
python-is-python3: /usr/bin/python

There are both `python-is-python2` and `python-is-python3` packages.
They just provide a symlink for convenience.
And one can use Python version managers to manage what `python` means, 
of cause.