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by pdonis 4400 days ago
> Why are you spreading lies?

Why are you assuming the worst possible intent on my part, instead of asking what I meant?

I meant the distros have Python 3 available, not that they make it the default that /usr/bin/python points to. Ubuntu has had Python 3 available for quite a number of releases; I run 12.04 which has Python 3.2 (and I've had it installed since I installed Ubuntu). According to the release notes[1], Ubuntu 14.04 makes Python 3.4 available, and work is ongoing to make it the default Python for Ubuntu. They also advise porting to Python 3.

It looks like CentOS makes Python 3.2 available, but I can't be sure from their online documentation.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes
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rdtsc 4400 days ago
> most Linux distros are at least at Python 3.2.

I don't know how else to interpret that besides "the base version of python in those latest distros is at least 3.2"

Shipping it as an "alternative" just splits the library world into to. So that is not a distro being "at" a python version.

> It looks like CentOS makes Python 3.2 available,

It does. Do all the python-* libraries work with it. Or do I have to install those separately?

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pdonis 4399 days ago
> I don't know how else to interpret that besides "the base version of python in those latest distros is at least 3.2"

Then you could have said that, or asked if there was another way to interpret it, instead of starting with "why are you spreading lies".

> It does. Do all the python- libraries work with it. Or do I have to install those separately?*

If CentOS works like Ubuntu, then there will be python3-* libraries for use with Python 3.

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rdtsc 4399 days ago
> "why are you spreading lies".

But I also didn't say you are spreading lies maliciously. You can spread them unknowingly via mis-communication.

I could post something like "Large parts of the Linux kernel are written in C++". And it would be spreading lies. But it could be just be me being confused as well or thinking that a C++ compiler will compile C and that C is a largely a subset of C++.

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pdonis 4399 days ago
> I also didn't say you are spreading lies maliciously

My objection wasn't that you imputed malice; it was that you went straight to "spreading lies" instead of expressing uncertainty about what I meant. And you were wrong about what I meant.

> You can spread them unknowingly via mis-communication.

Which, since you were wrong about what I meant, is what you did when you said I was "spreading lies".

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