Re: pip and python version

[Cameron Simpson]

On 29Aug2019 16:20, Robert Moskowitz  wrote:
> On 8/29/19 4:14 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 16:02:25 -0400
> > Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > > Do I need to do anything, or will this be self-correcting come the 
> > > new year?
> >
> > I forget where (maybe in redhat rather than fedora), but some
> > distro has utterly removed /usr/bin/python all it has now
> > is /usr/bin/python2 or /usr/bin/python3 and your scripts need
> > to explicitly refer to one or the other.
>
> So no more just pip.  It is pip3.
>
> xml2rfc claims it works just fine with either.

These days the advice is to use:

python -m pip

adjusting "python" as desired. That way you get the pip that affects 
your intended python install.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson