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From: fassl.tod at gmail.com (Todor Fassl)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 17:03:33 -0600

I got a question from a student who is using python. "I'd rather not 
hard code in any python version. Is there any reason to have the system 
default be 2 instead of 3?"

He had asked me to install the python-matplotlib package. I was like, 
"Are you sure you want python-matplotlib and not python3-matplotlib?" He 
is still coding in python2.7 instead of python3 but not by choice. Is 
there such a thing as a system default python version? To program in 
python3, doesn't he have to modify his code?

-- 
Todd

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