On 29Aug2019 16:54, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
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.
Which goes really nicely into the next question.
It seems the default right now is 2.7:
$ python --version Python 2.7.16
Will this automagically change on Jan 1, 2020?
Probably not? But I'm guessing, not speaking from knowledge.
$ python3 --version Python 3.7.4
Is there a way to get it changed now and see what is in trouble (though there is very little python that I know I am using).
Well, you could move /usr/bin/python sideways (so that it could be put back) and install a symlink to whichever Python executable you want to test.
Keep in mind that yum and dnf are implemented in Python, so while that symlink is nonstandard badness may ensue.
Cheers, Cameron Simpson cs@cskk.id.au