On 8/29/19 4:41 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 29Aug2019 16:20, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com 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.
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?
$ 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).