Re: Symbolic package 2.9.0

[Colin Macdonald]

On 2020-03-11 4:09 p.m., Nicholas Jankowski wrote:
> Windows 10. Used the vanilla Python installer for 3.7.  realize stable 
> is now 3.9.1 but I'm on a managed system so I'm out of date .not sure if 
> that change was made for windows.

3.7 is not so old.

To me, [PEP394](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/) makes it 
sound like "python3" should be available

> We expect Unix-like software distributions (including systems like macOS and 
> Cygwin) to install the python2 command into the default path whenever a version 
> of the Python 2 interpreter is installed, and the same for python3 and the 
> Python 3 interpreter.

But OTOH it also says:

> This PEP deliberately excludes any proposals relating to Microsoft Windows,

Windows... *throws up hands*...  *sigh*.  I will explore a bit but maybe 
the default on Windows needs to still be `python` not `python3`?

Colin