[floatboth]

Arch Linux has been shipping Py3 as the default python for a long time…

[xyrouter]

I am aware of that. So has been many other distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, etc.

My point was: Which command do you normally use to install packages in Python 3? pip3 or pip?

I thought it was pip3 but the article seems to imply that using the pip command to install packages in Python 3 is common too. If this is true, which distribution ships Python 3 with pip instead of pip3 for installing packages in Python 3? Does it not conflict with pip of Python 2?

[ssebastianj]

Not the parent but on Ubuntu I use:

$ python -m pip ... # Use Python 2

$ python2 -m pip ... # If you want to be sure is using Python 2

$ python3 -m pip ... # Use Python 3

$ python3 -m venv ... # Create a virtualenv with Python 3 as documented on https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html to "prevent any potential confusion as to which Python interpreter a virtual environment will be based on"

I know it's verbose and long to type but looks explicit to me and saved me to use the wrong version of Python several times.

[floatboth]

If 'python' is 3, I'd expect 'pip' to be for 3, and 'pip2' for 2.

[xyrouter]

Ah! That makes a lot of sense. If Python 3 is the default, it does make sense 'pip' to be the Python 3 pip. That way 'pip' always refers to the default version.

Unfortunately in the Ubuntu and Mac world 'python' is still Python 2.7 and 'pip' refers to the Python 2 pip. Python 3 is available as 'python3' along with 'pip3'.

[darnir]

Yes. On Arch Linux you would use just pip. pip2 for Python 2.