Also, if this package is subsequently uninstalled ( i.e. Does python-is-python3 really just create a single symlink? It seems odd to introduce a package for such a bare bones purpose. The link above mentions creation of a symlink. First can somebody confirm this, and second, does the same go for pip, i.e. I gather if I was to run python-is-python3 from the command prompt then I could use the command python instead of python3. Is python-is-python3 proprietary to Ubuntu/Canonical? If so, do other Linux distributions use python-is-python3 also or do some other distributions have a similar equivalent? Here are some questions I have about python-is-python3:
The middle of these 3 links is the most descriptive, but none are especially clear about what python-is-python3 is/does and the full scope of ramifications if sudo apt-get install python-is-python3 was to be ran on a Ubuntu 20.04 install. How to make 'python' program command execute Python 3? I was surprised and upon looking into things further found the following about the package python-is-python3:
So today I tried Ubuntu 20.04 for the first time, and found: $ python -version Having used Ubuntu 18.04 for a handful of years now, and reading that Python 2 has been removed from Ubuntu 20.04, I was looking forward to using the commands python or pip rather than python3 or pip3.
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