Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Will Try To Be Python-3-Only, No Python 2 By Default

[piotrek]

* Python 3 only on INSTALLATION MEDIA, this is a HUGE difference, python2.7 will still be available (for next 10 years or so)
* Python 3 cannot be default because there's no Python default interpreter on Debian (and Ubuntu uses what Debian has) - Python 2.x and Python 3.X are two different languages in these distributions so one cannot replace another (to make it even clearer: /usr/bin/python WILL NEVER POINT TO Python 3.X on Debian/Ubuntu)

[ElectricPrism]

Ubuntu? Yeah I think i've heard of that somewhere, can't remember - oh well.

[leio]

If you are a python developer please !!!!! use proper versioned shebang #!/usr/bin/pythonX

No, please use better shebang, like #!/usr/bin/env python2 - so you don't force me to use the wrong interpreter path in my virtualenv. And then you hit that old ubuntu distribution user that didn't have those major version symlinks yet.

[armetuz]

Right move Ubuntu.

For everyone else - python2 still be available in repos and easily installable. But developers need to use /usr/bin/python2 or /usr/bin/python3 to specify what exactly python version it needs.

If you are a python developer please !!!!! use proper versioned shebang #!/usr/bin/pythonX

[dungeon]

So like Catalyst Control Center, Ubuntu Software Center will be dropped in favor of Gnome Software without Center...

Centers are not popular anymore it seems