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...u reference saying that shouldn't be done. However, Fedora is now making noises about doing the same, in a few years, after driving a change in the upstream recommendation. While it's certainly not finalized, I'd fully expect this to happen at some point. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FinalizingFedoraSwitchtoPython3 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/python And, regarding using "python2" instead of "python2.7": Since python2.7 is the last-ever python2 version, and also the minimum version required by llvm, the name "python2" is false generality. Additionally, the "python2...

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As mentioned in https://docs.python.org/3/using/unix.html#miscellaneous, for Python 3 the shebang line should be: #!/usr/bin/env python3 For Python 2 the shebang line should probably be: #!/usr/bin/env python2 but as Python 3 should never install its executable under the name "python", you could also let it stay at: #!/usr/bin/env python instead. -Dimitry > On 1 Feb 2018, at

Sadly, neither the latest version of RedHat (released in 2014), nor the latest version of macOS (released in 2017) have any version of python3 available with the default system. On the other hand, TTBOMK, every system that does have python3 available also makes python2.7 also easily available. LLVM is not a primarily python project, so keeping up with the latest features of the language, and